[Cppunit-devel] GCC'ism

[John C. <joh...@ta...>]

I'm using CppUnit-1.6.2 under the GNU gcc compiler and I would like to
inject one or two slight gcc'isms into it.

In CPPUNIT_ASSERT macros I would like to use the __PRETTY_FUNCTION__
keyword, this allows one to immediately see which function had the
assert failure, and more importantantly which instantiation of a
template test function had the failure. (Very useful if you are using
templates and CppUnit to enforce Bug Compatibility between two
implementations...)

In the TextTestResult I would like to reformat the error messages to look
(at least to emacs) like gcc compiler error messages. This would enable an
Emacs user to put the cursor over the offended assert failure, hit enter
and Emacs would bring up that file at that source line.

What is the favoured manner of making such environment specific changes to
CppUnit? Preprocessor conditionals?

#if __GNUC__
  Do this
#else
  Do that
#endif

Autoconf enable/disable feature?
  configure --enable-pretty-function --enable-emacs-support

What is the favoured manner of receiving such changes?
--As a request, you will do it.
--No yuck, don't want that feature, only C++ pure as the driven snowy standard please!
--As a patch on 1.6.2.
--As a patch on latest CVS version.
--Here is access to the CVS tree, do it yourself.

Thanks,

John Carter                             Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
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