Re: [MERGE] Remove old .h file tests from unit-testing

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:59:46 +1300

Alex Rousskov wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 22:23 +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
>> Or we could consider squid.h the dirty one, moving out the little
>> tweaks which is there to config.h or better places.
>
> IMO, at the end of the cleanup, "squid.h" should be the file that all
> sources are guaranteed to include first simply because it is called
> squid.h. Config.h has, by name, a much narrower scope.
>
> I realize that this is subjective and that very few people care about
> things like that in Squid so if, for whatever reason, Amos wants to
> remove squid.h from most files and leave config.h instead, I am not
> going to object since I am not the person doing the cleanup leg work,
> and since the functional effect will be the same.
>
> The little tweaks that are not global in nature should be moved out to
> specific headers and wrappers, of course. The
> guaranteed-to-be-included-first.h file should eventually be almost
> empty. Its primary value is the guarantee itself, which becomes a useful
> tool for [usually temporary] hacks.

With the testheaders.sh every .h now has
guaranteed-to-be-included-at-earliest-actual-need.

This has the side-effect of giving config.h a guaranteed-to-be-included
due to most .h or .cc files using #if HAVE... syntax to system includes.
Even if its not included explicitly in the local .h

The hacks should be localized to the object(s) they are hacking anyway
and not affect the entire Squid + sub-programs + linked-programs +
helpers + unit-tests + tools.

If they do you would be:
   - hacking a system include
        (which requires config.h for the wrapping!)
   - hacking an objects behaviour
        (which gets linked/included everywhere its used anyway!)

Amos

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