Re: struct or class
On Jan 31, 10:42 pm, John G Harris <ne...@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 at 06:43:33, in comp.lang.c++.moderated, Ian Collins
wrote:
On 01/30/11 05:37 AM, John G Harris wrote:
<snip>
Furthermore, some things can't be tested by C++ code.
Such as?
That all local new'ed objects are deleted, for instance.
Yes they can, you just provide your own allocator.
Is this always possible? Even if testing code that uses its own
allocator?
Any decent test harness will provide a special allocator for the
code to be tested, in order to distinguish between allocations
from the test harness, and allocations from what is being
tested. It should also be capable of simulating an out of
memory condition on command, since you can't say you've tested
anything if you haven't verified that the code works correctly
in out of memory conditions.
They're not documentation, but tests are still very necessary.
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