On 12/05/2023 00:16, Glen Choo wrote:

Phillip Wood [off-list ref] writes:

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It would be possible, but I'd want to see some macros for checking
invariants that print the source location as well as their
arguments. I'd be interested to hear what you think of the alternative
approach in the patch below.

I personally (not representing the Google folks as a whole) find the
option of implementing our own C TAP suite quite appealing. As your
patch shows, we can get pretty far even with a rudimentary initial
version, and I don't see why we couldn't refine it as we go along.

I'm concerned about the overhead of relying on a third party library
that implements something moderately complex and isn't widely used,
It's much easier to patch and read code that we maintain ourselves, e.g.
if we need to fix bugs/add features/understand its behavior. These risks
are quite real, especially when it's not clear what kind of support we
can rely on from C TAP Harness's side.

Yes I think for something like this the advantages of having our own 
implementation that implements exactly what we want and runs on all the 
platforms we support outweigh the effort of writing the implementation. 
As there is already talk of having to customize c-tap-harness it is not 
clear there is even much effort saved going that route.

Best Wishes

Phillip