[dmd-internals] changeset 455

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Mon May 3 13:35:22 PDT 2010


On May 2, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Since we've been looking into this now and we have a solution in our collective mental caches, is there please a chance to effect this change for this beta? I'm telling you, it is an _important_ step forward in unittesting D programs.
>> 
> 
> One thing I should mention is that dmd now calls a different function for unittest asserts than the asserts normally do, and it does not regard those calls as "terminating" calls. This means that the unittest behavior can now be controlled by adjusting the runtime library, without affecting the assert failure code.

For now, I've modified the code to make this behavior not overridable.  I'll probably change it back though--this occurred as a side-effect of a bunch of other changes I'm working on.


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