Unit tests and segfaults

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-12-11 20:21, Russel Winder wrote:

> I appreciate where you are coming from with respect to general testing
> strategy, and am basically in agreement with what you say.  However in
> this specific case a segfault is just another exception.  In terms of
> recursion the exception is "recursion stack limit reached" it just
> happens to be spelt "segfault"

If you actually want to rely on segfaults there are code out there that 
can catch a segfault and convert it in to an exception. Actully, this 
got recently merged into druntime: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/commit/ae3ef074f4cad03cc993737dcae17d2e1e16779f

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg