Mateusz Loskot wrote:
Hi,
I noticed this as popular convention across Boost libraries (e.g. endian) to deal with test cases that may throw or leak exceptions:
int cpp_main( int argc, char* argv[] ) ...
Is there any reason to prefer that one over this one?
int main( int argc, char* argv[] ) ...
cpp_main is not a convention. It's mostly useful when you already have a common `main` provided by the test framework, whether inside the static test framework library or in a header such as https://github.com/boostorg/detail/blob/develop/include/boost/detail/lightwe... The current state of affairs in Endian is because it used to use <boost/detail/lightweight_main.hpp> and I switched away from it to avoid having to depend on Detail. https://github.com/boostorg/endian/commit/3a50c15a9734439598b46442568b375a52... In a self-contained test, there is no need to use cpp_main. Just write `main` the usual straightforward way.