[LLVMdev] Any objections to my importing GoogleMock to go with GoogleTest in LLVM?

[Chandler Carruth]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:54 AM, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk
> wrote:

> On 13 Nov 2013, at 06:21, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com> wrote:
>
> > Keep in mind that I am a maintainer for gmock so this would not change
> the external project decencies of LLVM.
>
> Is gmock written with more portability in mind than gtest?  In my
> experience, bringing up a new platform for gtest is a huge amount of pain
> (unless the code has been improved recently - I last tried it about 18
> months ago), because the code has very poor abstractions and an
> incomprehensible nest of #ifdefs for any platform-specific code, mostly
> testing the wrong thing.  Being unable to get the test suite to run was the
> blocker for even starting to port some of the sanitizers that used gtest
> last time I tried.
>

I don't know about what problems you hit, but I would not expect them with
gmock. It is in many ways simpler than gtest, and most notably relies on
gtest for essentially all of its interesting platform dependencies. Of
course, I can't be certain, but this isn't what would worry me.
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