Re: [boost] [test] How to structure tests where compilation should fail?

From: Matthias Schabel (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-01 19:13:24

> Matthias Schabel wrote:
>> I'm a little surprised that
>> there isn't support for this built into Boost.Test.
>
> Well, not really. Typically people try hard to make their code  
> compile,
> not to fail ;-)

That depends, of course, on how much metaprogramming you're doing.
In order to test the compile-time dimensional analysis code, we need to
be able to ensure that a wide range of cases that should be prevented
at compile time do, in fact, fail. Many, many cases...

Matthias