On 09/08/2016 06:30 PM, David Malcolm wrote:
We have a lot of global state in our code. Ideally we'd reduce the amount of such global state, but a prerequisite for sane refactoring is having automated testing in place to ensure that the refactoring doesn't break anything.However, the global state itself makes it hard to write such automated testing. To break this Catch-22, this patch introduces a class temp_override, for temporarily assigning a value to a global variable, saving the old value, and then restoring that old value in a dtor. gcc/ChangeLog: * selftest.h (selftest::temp_override): New class.
When you need it, this is fine. jeff
