[phobos] Silent failure of std.container unittests

[David Simcha]

Vote++.  What made it hit home for me was when I was unittesting some code
where the unittests can't be completely deterministic and thus print out
lots of crap for human interpretation.  (When unittesting random number
generators or stress testing a parallelization lib this can be a necessary
evil IMHO).  In these cases it's easy for a single assert failure to go
unnoticed.

On the other hand, I guess we could start using enforce() instead of
assert() in unittests if we prefer the old behavior.

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com>wrote:

> Walter, Sean - I'm asking again, please bring unittests back where they
> were. The recent change to assert() semantics has cause a net pessimization
> of everyone's efficiency.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei
>
>
> On 07/13/2010 07:09 AM, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
>
>> I'm using Linux too, and DMD 2.047.  I've investigated this some more.
>> Compilation of the std.container unittests succeeds, but the executable
>> generated/posix/debug/unittest/std/container terminates with exit status
>> 1.  Its main() function never runs.
>>
>> -Lars
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 09:18 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> Can't reproduce on Linux.
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>>
>>> On 07/12/2010 08:55 AM, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
>>>
>>>> When running 'make unittest' on the latest revision of Phobos, it just
>>>> fails on/after std.container, without any sensible error message:
>>>>
>>>> Testing generated/posix/debug/unittest/std/container
>>>> make[1]: *** [generated/posix/debug/unittest/std/container] Error 1
>>>> make: *** [unittest] Error 2
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else seeing this?
>>>>
>>>> -Lars
>>>>
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