| -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Gennadiy Rozental | Sent: 24 June 2006 06:28 | To: boost@lists.boost.org | Subject: Re: [boost] Error messages from Boost.test | | | "Paul A Bristow" <pbristow@hetp.u-net.com> wrote in message | news:E1FtqT5-0005lW-> But why does the test suite then output: | > | > unknown location(0) | > | > unknown location(0): fatal error in "test_main_caller( | argc, argv )": | | [...] | | > Could/should it show file and line here? Am I using this | wrongly? Or is | > this just a feature? | | Essencially the reason is that Boost.Test does indeed do not | know where the | error occured. | | Let's say we have | | .... | 123: BOOST_CHECK( foo() ); | | If there is a fatal error within function foo invokation | Boost.Test doesn't | know where it actually occured. I couldn't state that it | occured at line | 123, since the assertion is not validated yet. What I could | show is that we | enterred the expression at line 123 and then something | happend (vs. an error | occured with assertion at line 123) | | | > | ..\..\..\..\..\..\boost-sandbox\libs\math_functions\test\test | _chisqr.cpp(119 | > ): last checkpoint | > | > Does show the (deliberately) offending file and line, | which is good. | | Is it good enough? It is certainly good enough, but the existing 1st message has confused me - not difficult ;-) It suggested to me that I was missing something. Could the first message easily and usefully say "After line 123" perhaps? Paul --- Paul A Bristow Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB +44 1539561830 & SMS, Mobile +44 7714 330204 & SMS pbristow@hetp.u-net.com