I suppose you could write some wrapper macros that use __typeof (or whatever that compiler-specific keyword is) to automatically cast your second argument to the type of the first argument. You could even limit it to "safe" conversions.
Look at tgmath.h for inspiration.
--Kyle Sluder
(Sent from the road)
On Aug 16, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Sean McBride <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:36:57 -0700, Jens Alfke said:
>
>> I’ve been using the STxxx test macros lately, as they’re the path of
>> least resistance, but I’m getting pretty frustrated with them. Worst is
>> the way that STAssertEquals is extremely picky about types (the actual
>> and expected parameters have to have exactly the same type), and worse,
>> somehow manages to defer the type checking until runtime, so you only
>> find out when you get an assertion failure.
>>
>> So I keep making ‘mistakes’ like:
>> STAssertEquals(myArray.length, 32, nil);
>> which compiles fine, but fails at runtime because -length returns an
>> NSUInteger and 32 is an int. Changing 32 to 32u works on 32-bit but not
>> 64-bit; the only form I’ve found that always works is the awkward
>> STAssertEquals(digest.length, (NSUInteger)32, nil);
>> Not surprisingly, I still forget to do this pretty often.
>
> We've had the same experience, and the same solution I'm afraid. :(
>
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