How run gtest and make sure sigabrt never happens

Question

I need a gtest that will pass if sigabrt doesn't happen, but need to know if it does happen, or fail the test. How would I do that?

I was thinking of this sort of thing:

TEST_F(TestTest, testSigabrtDoesntHappen)
{
   MyObject &myObject = MyObject::instance();
   for(int i=0; i<2; i++){
        myObject.doWork(); //this will sigabrt on the second try, if at all
        ASSERT_TRUE(myObject);
   }
   ASSERT_TRUE(myObject);
}

So assuming a sigabrt would exit out of the test if it occurs, then we would get 3 test passes otherwise. Any other ideas?

Answer 1

Not on Window:

::testing::KilledBySignal(signal_number)  // Not available on Windows.

You should look the guide.

It seems like that for me (not tested) :

TEST_F(TestTest, testSigabrtDoesntHappen)
{
   MyObject &myObject = MyObject::instance();
   for(int i=0; i<2; i++){
        EXPECT_EXIT(myObject.doWork(), ::testing::KilledBySignal(SIGBART)), "Regex to match error message");
        ASSERT_TRUE(myObject);
   }
   ASSERT_TRUE(myObject);
}

On Window:

You'll have to handle signal yourself with this kind of code:

// crt_signal.c  
// compile with: /EHsc /W4  
// Use signal to attach a signal handler to the abort routine  
#include <stdlib.h>  
#include <signal.h>  
#include <tchar.h>  

void SignalHandler(int signal)  
{  
    if (signal == SIGABRT) {  
        // abort signal handler code  
    } else {  
        // ...  
    }  
}  

int main()  
{  
    typedef void (*SignalHandlerPointer)(int);  

    SignalHandlerPointer previousHandler;  
    previousHandler = signal(SIGABRT, SignalHandler);  

    abort();  //emit SIGBART ?
}

doc

But seriously if you have one time get a SIGBART running your code, there are some problems with your code that you have to remove before release the software.

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But if you really want to debug your code (with googletest), use this with your debugger:

foo_test --gtest_repeat=1000 --gtest_break_on_failure

You can add others option to it, again : check the doc :)