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| author | Abseil Team <absl-team@google.com> | 2022-10-24 19:01:26 +0300 |
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| committer | Copybara-Service <copybara-worker@google.com> | 2022-10-24 19:02:02 +0300 |
| commit | 03597a01ee50ed33e9dfd640b249b4be3799d395 (patch) | |
| tree | 8b151cc061ed4ea2d5643a2398e2ff918ae22be8 | |
| parent | e07617d6c692a96e126f11f85c3e38e46b10b4d0 (diff) | |
Clarify that parameter generator does not evaluate immediately
This aims to avoid confusion as to what kinds of computations are valid inside
a parameter generator expression, calling out flags as a supported use case.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 483397027
Change-Id: I2d036fae95120d617f30a5566ea7498ce1f9bfb6
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/advanced.md | 5 |
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diff --git a/docs/advanced.md b/docs/advanced.md index c3c54614..59251706 100644 --- a/docs/advanced.md +++ b/docs/advanced.md @@ -1095,6 +1095,11 @@ instantiation of the test suite. The next argument is the name of the test pattern, and the last is the [parameter generator](reference/testing.md#param-generators). +The parameter generator expression is not evaluated until GoogleTest is +initialized (via `InitGoogleTest()`). Any prior initialization done in the +`main` function will be accessible from the parameter generator, for example, +the results of flag parsing. + You can instantiate a test pattern more than once, so to distinguish different instances of the pattern, the instantiation name is added as a prefix to the actual test suite name. Remember to pick unique prefixes for different |