On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:46:42 -0500 "Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental@thomson.com> wrote:
Example uses ifdef because:
1. It used to demonstrate that timeout support is not supported everywhere 2. We know for sure it will hang if run on a system that does not support timeout
Right. I understand.
You as a user shouldn't in general expect it and if it does hang and your system doesn't support timeout you will have to interrupt it yourself. The only reason to use ifdef is the case when you are doing portable development and willing to ignore possible infinite loop on some configurations for the sake of ability to run a test as a part of regression suite (without human intervention). Is it really the case?
Yes, I know, and understand all you are saying here. Maybe trying to be complete has hidden what I am really asking. What I am requesting is that Boost.Test supply a macro that can be used instead of me, the dumb user, having to know if the internals of Boost.Test support my platform. I would like to do something like... #ifdef #BOOST_TEST_Some_Macro_Telling_Me_If_Timeout_Is_Supported_On_My_Platform rather than doing... #ifdef __unix Since the Boost headers already have figured out my platform, and Boost.Test is the one that knows the support it provides. Thanks!