Opened 12 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#5036 closed Bugs (fixed)

Boost.Test VC memory leak report should direct to stderr

Reported by: anonymous Owned by: Gennadiy Rozental
Milestone: Boost 1.59.0 Component: test
Version: Boost 1.45.0 Severity: Problem
Keywords: Cc:

Description

Boost.Test includes a memory leak detection feature (uses the ones MSV provided). Unfortunately it redirects the output to stdout, not conventional stderr.

We are currently creating XML-based test reports. If the memory leak happended, the XML becomes ill-formed. For better interoperability, the debug output should go to stderr.

I traced the place where the called in placed (in boost/test/impl/debug.ipp)

#ifdef BOOST_MS_CRT_BASED_DEBUG
    int flags = _CrtSetDbgFlag( _CRTDBG_REPORT_FLAG );

    if( !on_off )
        flags &= ~_CRTDBG_LEAK_CHECK_DF;
    else  {
        flags |= _CRTDBG_LEAK_CHECK_DF;
        _CrtSetReportMode(_CRT_WARN, _CRTDBG_MODE_FILE);
        _CrtSetReportFile(_CRT_WARN, _CRTDBG_FILE_STDOUT);
    }

    _CrtSetDbgFlag ( flags );
#endif // BOOST_MS_CRT_BASED_DEBUG

The call _CrtSetReportFile(_CRT_WARN, _CRTDBG_FILE_STDOUT); should be changed to

_CrtSetReportFile(_CRT_WARN, _CRTDBG_FILE_STDERR);

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Gennadiy Rozental, 11 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [75038]) use stderr as default stream for reporting leak errors (the same as any other reports) Fixes #5036

comment:2 by Raffi Enficiaud, 7 years ago

Milestone: To Be DeterminedBoost 1.59.0
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