Re: [PATCH v12 03/18] kunit: test: add string_stream a std::stream like string builder

Stephen Boyd
2019-08-13T16:48:21Z

Quoting Brendan Higgins (2019-08-13 02:12:54)
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 2:04 AM Brendan Higgins
> <brendanhiggins@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 10:30 PM Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Quoting Brendan Higgins (2019-08-12 22:02:59)
> > > > However, now that I added the kunit_resource_destroy, I thought it
> > > > might be good to free the string_stream after I use it in each call to
> > > > kunit_assert->format(...) in which case I will be using this logic.
> > > >
> > > > So I think the right thing to do is to expose string_stream_destroy so
> > > > kunit_do_assert can clean up when it's done, and then demote
> > > > string_stream_clear to static. Sound good?
> > >
> > > Ok, sure. I don't really see how clearing it explicitly when the
> > > assertion prints vs. never allocating it to begin with is really any
> > > different. Maybe I've missed something though.
> >
> > It's for the case that we *do* print something out. Once we are doing
> > printing, we don't want the fragments anymore.
>
> Oops, sorry fat fingered: s/doing/done

Yes, but when we print something out we've run into some sort of problem
and then the test is over. So freeing the memory when it fails vs. when
the test is over seems like a minor difference. Or is it also used to
print other informational messages while the test is running?

I'm not particularly worried here, just trying to see if less code is
possible.