"John McMahon" <john_gg_mcmahon@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:f1766r$khc$1@sea.gmane.org... Hi Grennadiy, thanks for your help so far. I might just switch to the no libraries solution and wait for 1.34 binaries to be built, since I don't have time on my schedule to dig deeper into the boost build.
Correct me if I'm wrong - if I chose to use the synchronous exceptions version of the libraries now on Boost Consulting website, the core libraries ought to work fine, it is just that I ought to expect runtime exceptions to terminate the execution of any code I write using it.
Boost.Test won;t be able to catch system errors, like memory access violation
Ie please confirm that there's no reason to > think that boost-test, etc might not function with this exception model.
Just on the no-libraries solution. I can't find anything documented about any special compiler settings to get it to work with vc80.
VC 8.0 was not available at the time
When I set /EHsc, the popped up exception occurs. When I set /EHa, the program _appears_ to finish fine, but on closer inspection of the console output, I discover the access violation message is there in the console. But I guess this is not what I should get with my no-libraries test. What am I doing wrong here?
I don't see anything wrong with an output below. Memory access violation is caught and reported by the UTF. Gennadiy -- OUTPUT: $ ./Boost_test_1_withoutSeparateLibrary.exe Running 1 test case... d:/john/syncfolder/projects/programming/c++/vc++/projects/boost_test_1/boost_test_1/getstarted.cpp(13): error in "free_te st_function": check 3 == 1 failed unknown location(0): fatal error in "free_test_function": memory access violation *** 1 failure detected (1 failure expected) in test suite "Unit test example 1" --- #include <boost/test/included/unit_test_framework.hpp> using boost::unit_test::test_suite; void free_test_function(){ BOOST_CHECK(3 == 1); int* p = (int*)0; *p = 0;} test_suite* init_unit_test_suite( int, char* [] ) { test_suite* test= BOOST_TEST_SUITE( "Unit test example 1" ); test->add( BOOST_TEST_CASE( &free_test_function ), 1 /* expected one error */ ); return test;}