unittests are really part of the build, not a special run

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/31/15 9:21 AM, qznc wrote:
> On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 22:50:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Violent agreement here. I was just saying unittests should be part of
>> the build process, not the run process. Running unittests and then the
>> app is a bad idea.
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me.
>
> Then -unittest should be enabled by default?

Probably not; we're looking at two different builds. The build to be 
deployed has no unittest code at all.

> Implementationwise it sounds like you want another entry point apart
> from main, e.g. "main_unittest". Then the build process is
> compile-link-unittest. Afterwards the run process is the usual main call.
>
> It makes binaries bigger though. Maybe unittest-specific code can be
> placed in a special segment, which can be removed during deployment?

Interesting. Or could be a dynamically-loaded library. But... crawl 
before we walk.


Andrei