http://blog.nelhage.com/2010/06/check-plus-an-edsl-for-writing-unit-tests-in-c/ It's software. It's made of bugs. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:46:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blog.nelhage.com/2010/06/check-plus-an-edsl-for-writing-unit-tests-in-c/comment-page-1/#comment-1866 nelhage Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:51:08 +0000 http://blog.nelhage.com/?p=263#comment-1866 <p>Check (and Check Plus) are pure C, whereas googletest (and I believe most similar things) are written in C++. So even though they can potentially be used to test C code, there are some environments where introducing a C++ dependency, even for the test suite, is annoying or unacceptable.</p> Check (and Check Plus) are pure C, whereas googletest (and I believe most similar things) are written in C++. So even though they can potentially be used to test C code, there are some environments where introducing a C++ dependency, even for the test suite, is annoying or unacceptable.

]]> http://blog.nelhage.com/2010/06/check-plus-an-edsl-for-writing-unit-tests-in-c/comment-page-1/#comment-1865 phaero Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:46:47 +0000 http://blog.nelhage.com/?p=263#comment-1865 <p>What makes this test framework any better than the existing ones like, for instance, googletest?</p> What makes this test framework any better than the existing ones like, for instance, googletest?

]]> http://blog.nelhage.com/2010/06/check-plus-an-edsl-for-writing-unit-tests-in-c/comment-page-1/#comment-1846 nelhage Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:36:20 +0000 http://blog.nelhage.com/?p=263#comment-1846 <p>My crimes against the preprocessor are insignificant compared to those perpetrated by the <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/379903/" rel="nofollow">Linux</a> <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/381064" rel="nofollow">kernel</a> <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/383362/" rel="nofollow">developers</a></p> My crimes against the preprocessor are insignificant compared to those perpetrated by the Linux kernel developers

]]> http://blog.nelhage.com/2010/06/check-plus-an-edsl-for-writing-unit-tests-in-c/comment-page-1/#comment-1830 Karl Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:36:22 +0000 http://blog.nelhage.com/?p=263#comment-1830 <p>Hasn't the C preprocessor suffered enough?</p> Hasn’t the C preprocessor suffered enough?

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