[boost] Boost unit test with BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS

Subject: [boost] Boost unit test with BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS
From: driscoll (driscoll_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-06 16:30:13

I work on a team that uses compiles with exception support disabled. 
(That... is not my decision, and no value judgments on that, please. 
:-))

I'd kind of like to use the unit test library. However, at a surface 
level it has lots of uses of raw try/catch/throw instead of 
BOOST_TRY/BOOST_CATCH/BOOST_THROW. At a deeper level, I suspect what's 
doing is throwing an exception on an EXPECT or ASSERT failure -- and 
thus that disabling exceptions will basically mean that a test failure 
will cause an immediate abort in the program. (I guess I can hack around 
that in an ugly but somewhat-reasonable way.)

How hopeless is using the library with BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS?

Evan