On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Thorsten Ottosen <thorsten.ottosen@dezide.com> wrote:
Mat Marcus skrev:
When I run a simple test application with a single (empty) BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE, boost test causes a crash under cygwin using gcc-4.x. It also crashes for non-empty auto test cases. For example, the boost test regressions crash:
Just oout of curiosity, where did you get gcc 4.x for cygwin?
Note that I don't find it all that useful since it seems to be compiled without posix thread support. So, in general I compile my own gcc (or concept-gcc). But I mentioned the cygwin gcc here since it will make the issue easier to reproduce. Hearing no reply from the test lib authors, I did a bit more research. It seems that if I manually register my test cases instead of using BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE the crashes in my tests disappear. From this I conclude that the issue lies in the additional test case destruction machinery that comes into play when the macro is used. I am rewriting my code to avoid the macro now. Though more verbose, debugging is clearer, the code is more readable, and it doesn't crash anymore. I would be interested to learn what's going wrong though. - Mat