sanitizers
AddressSanitizer, ThreadSanitizer, MemorySanitizer (by google)
Catch
A modern, C++-native, test framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD - using C++14, C++17 and later (C++11 support is in v2.x branch, and C++03 on the Catch1.x branch) (by catchorg)
| sanitizers | Catch | |
|---|---|---|
| 48 | 55 | |
| 10,826 | 17,995 | |
| 1.3% | 0.5% | |
| 6.3 | 9.2 | |
| 10 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| C | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Boost Software License 1.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
sanitizers
Posts with mentions or reviews of sanitizers.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-26.
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Good resources for learning C in depth?
AddressSanitizer is really useful, it's similar to Valgrind but has much lower overhead.
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Memory Allocators
And if you're up for it, I'd further recommend adding some ways to deal with buffer overflows in debug builds. The way I deal with this is by using Address-Sanitizer's manual poisoning api. Bonus point if you leave additional poisoned space between allocations so off by one errors are likely to end up in a poisoned region instead of nearby allocation.
- Exception thrown: write access violation
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2023 Stack Overflow Survey: Rust is the most admired programming language, making it the most loved language for 8 years in a row
It also doesn't hurt that Miri can find many kinds of unsafe violations even in unsafe blocks. Zig may get something like this one day, but even if it does, checking things at runtime is not a substitute for compile time -- the C++ Sanitizers haven't exactly solved the safety story for C++ even over a decade later.
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What's the best thing you've found in code? :
This is where stuff like ASan is really useful.
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how do I check my library for memory leaks?
Use: https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizer
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Is malloc_trim() safe to use?
Have you tried using tools like ASAN/LSAN or valgrind to confirm that there are indeed no memory leaks?
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Having trouble with projects too long to post here.
Compile with ASAN and UBSAn
- Strange Segmentation Fault when accessing a Class inside a for loop.
- Will Carbon Replace C++?
Catch
Posts with mentions or reviews of Catch.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.
- C++ Comparison Operator Craziness
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How can I check the execution time of a program rendered in SFML?
https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2 (for unit testing, need to do timing yourself)
- Semi crise existentielle de développeur
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`DestroyJavaVM()` failing on OpenJ9?
```c++ // https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2/tree/Catch1.x // https://github.com/philsquared/Catch/releases/download/v1.12.2/catch.hpp
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How do you use the Catch testing library?
Include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare(Catch2 GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2.git GIT_TAG v3.3.2 ) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(Catch2)
- Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market
- The Little Things: Why you should always have benchmarks ready
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Trying to add tests for my cmake for catch2 with ctest.
Another possible issue would be the include(Catch) in your root cmakelists.txt . To include Catch there it must be part of your module path. Otherwise you have to include the path to that catch2 cmake file. Here is that file in their repository - https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2/blob/devel/extras/Catch.cmake . I recon that CMake doesn't know about this file since you call find_package(Catch2 REQUIRED) later in your subdirectory
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Seeking Improve Advice on my C++ Network Library
Unit test coverage by Catch2 framework.
- Catch2 added SKIP (and more built-in matchers)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing sanitizers and Catch you can also consider the following projects:
miri - An interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation
Google Test - GoogleTest - Google Testing and Mocking Framework
spdlog - Fast C++ logging library.
doctest - The fastest feature-rich C++11/14/17/20/23 single-header testing framework
xeus-cling - Jupyter kernel for the C++ programming language
Boost.Test - The reference C++ unit testing framework (TDD, xUnit, C++03/11/14/17)
plotters - A rust drawing library for high quality data plotting for both WASM and native, statically and realtimely 🦀 📈🚀
CppUTest - CppUTest unit testing and mocking framework for C/C++
Google Mock
gui_starter_template - A template CMake project to get you started with C++ and tooling
CppUnit - C++ port of JUnit