IainS <develo...@sandoe-acoustics.co.uk> writes: > So... I wonder what does abort() offer to the testsuite? > > that, for example, _exit(-(__LINE__)) ; > > doesn't?
The testsuite can be run on embedded systems over serial ports, where is sometimes limited communication available. Each test has to give one of two responses: success or failure. Embedded systems do not reliably return the value passed to the exit function, and in any case it seemed to make sense to use two different functions for the two responses. So we picked exit(0) and abort(). All the tests are written that way (or at least that was the goal). Using two functions is flexible in a different way: it means that you can compile the testsuite with -Dabort=my_favorite_abort and link against your own library. So do that. You can do this with magic in site.exp, but don't ask me what that magic is because I no longer remember. Ian
