Re: [Cppunit-devel] unexpected SIGSEGV on CPPUNIT_FAIL

[Baptiste L. <bl...@us...>]

Thomas Drillich wrote:
> Hello,
>
> can anybody help me, to find the reason why CPPUNIT_FAIL
> cause a SIGSEGV.
> thx in advance.

From experience such failure are caused by wrong or inconsistent compilation 
option. The CPPUNIT_FAIL throw an exception. I'd would recommend inlining 
the macro code and stepping into CPPUNIT_FAIL code with a debugger to see 
what is happening.

Baptiste.

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ostringstream ostr;
> ....
>
> } catch (const Exception &e ) {
> // if( e.Errno() != EINVAL ) {
> ostr.str("");
> ostr << mesg.shortDescription()
>      << "\n-- Unexpected Dns::Exception received !! \n--"
>      << e.message() << "--\n";
> cout << endl << ostr.str() << endl << endl; // here's nice output
> CPPUNIT_FAIL( ostr.str() ); // got sigsegv
> // }
> }
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Baptiste Lepilleur <bl...@us...>
CppUnit maintainer
OpenTest and CppUnit 2 developer.