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<title>catch3/src/catch2/matchers, branch feature/native-property-engine</title>
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<title>Backport Catch2 3.16.1</title>
<updated>2026-10-10T23:56:25+00:00</updated>
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<name>Leitwolf11</name>
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<published>2026-10-10T23:56:25+00:00</published>
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Review Catch2 devel through 08092139210881f01a34e60c5f2fd6afa0ea4024,
the commit of 3.16.1, and apply the eleven changes since the last
reviewed revision in upstream order:

  d7683484  better message when a reporter cannot be initialized
  ea5020f0  custom argument validation in every first-party reporter
  aa01559e  throwing-reporter test also throws in assertionEnded
  45cd3987  noexcept on handleUnexpectedInflightException
  6adbd539  MSVC optimizations enabled again after the benchmark headers
  e87f2882  no quadratic scaling for NTTP test registration
  73d546cd  REQUIRE expands its arguments fewer times under GCC and Clang
  b710039a  decomposer operators as plain functions
  f899467b  type-erased streaming of reconstructed expressions
  8f0e70ca  retired macos-14 runner dropped
  08092139  version 3.16.1 and its release notes

All of them applied to the sources without a conflict. The amalgamated
distribution under extras/ conflicted because it is generated; it is
generated again from the sources of this repository, which also brings
it up to date with fork changes it had not picked up: the list-based
stream pool, the Clang diagnostic boundary and the cassert include.

No file under src/Progmasoft changes. The fork-owned texts that name
the engine version say 3.16.1, and docs/upstream-status.md records the
review. Upstream files keep their names, licenses and compiler options.

Built with Clang 22 on Windows and tested: 148 of 149 tests pass. The
one that fails, Reporters::CrashInJunitReporter, fails the same way on
devel without this change with that compiler.
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Review Catch2 devel through 08092139210881f01a34e60c5f2fd6afa0ea4024,
the commit of 3.16.1, and apply the eleven changes since the last
reviewed revision in upstream order:

  d7683484  better message when a reporter cannot be initialized
  ea5020f0  custom argument validation in every first-party reporter
  aa01559e  throwing-reporter test also throws in assertionEnded
  45cd3987  noexcept on handleUnexpectedInflightException
  6adbd539  MSVC optimizations enabled again after the benchmark headers
  e87f2882  no quadratic scaling for NTTP test registration
  73d546cd  REQUIRE expands its arguments fewer times under GCC and Clang
  b710039a  decomposer operators as plain functions
  f899467b  type-erased streaming of reconstructed expressions
  8f0e70ca  retired macos-14 runner dropped
  08092139  version 3.16.1 and its release notes

All of them applied to the sources without a conflict. The amalgamated
distribution under extras/ conflicted because it is generated; it is
generated again from the sources of this repository, which also brings
it up to date with fork changes it had not picked up: the list-based
stream pool, the Clang diagnostic boundary and the cassert include.

No file under src/Progmasoft changes. The fork-owned texts that name
the engine version say 3.16.1, and docs/upstream-status.md records the
review. Upstream files keep their names, licenses and compiler options.

Built with Clang 22 on Windows and tested: 148 of 149 tests pass. The
one that fails, Reporters::CrashInJunitReporter, fails the same way on
devel without this change with that compiler.
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<title>Improve String matcher handling of case sensitivity</title>
<updated>2026-08-24T13:11:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2026-08-24T13:11:44+00:00</published>
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The old implementation of String matchers worked by making a, potentially
lower-cased, copy of both the constructor arg, and the arg to `match` calls.

The new implementation does not make copies, and instead does per-character
lowering if needed. This is a win in **most** cases, with two exceptions:

1) Case-insensitive `Equals` between long strings. The old implementation
   is easy to autovectorize by the compiler, which wins over the extra copy
   with sufficiently long inputs.
2) Case-insensitive `ContainsSubstring` with inputs that trigger the worst
   case complexity of O(m*n) of the naive implementation.

The latter is fixable with some elbow grease by implementing a proper
string search algorithm, but the former is a cost we have to live with.
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The old implementation of String matchers worked by making a, potentially
lower-cased, copy of both the constructor arg, and the arg to `match` calls.

The new implementation does not make copies, and instead does per-character
lowering if needed. This is a win in **most** cases, with two exceptions:

1) Case-insensitive `Equals` between long strings. The old implementation
   is easy to autovectorize by the compiler, which wins over the extra copy
   with sufficiently long inputs.
2) Case-insensitive `ContainsSubstring` with inputs that trigger the worst
   case complexity of O(m*n) of the naive implementation.

The latter is fixable with some elbow grease by implementing a proper
string search algorithm, but the former is a cost we have to live with.
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<title>Constexpr matching support in generic Contains matchers</title>
<updated>2026-05-12T09:05:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2026-05-12T08:04:14+00:00</published>
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<title>Constexpr matching support in the quantifier matchers</title>
<updated>2026-05-12T09:05:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2026-05-12T07:25:50+00:00</published>
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<title>Constexpr matching support in IsEmpty and SizeIs matchers</title>
<updated>2026-05-12T09:05:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2026-05-12T06:57:55+00:00</published>
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<title>Support for constexpr matchers in C++20 (P0784)</title>
<updated>2026-05-12T09:05:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2026-05-10T21:05:46+00:00</published>
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To make this all work, I had to remove the stringification cache
from matchers. In theory, this can cause performance penalty in
cases where single matcher instance is stringified multiple times,
but in practice this does not happen much, and the difference is
surprisingly small anyway, because the performance of stringification
is already horrible and full of allocating strings just to throw
them away.

The matcher combinators need P2738 from C++26 to be `constexpr`.

Closes #3091
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To make this all work, I had to remove the stringification cache
from matchers. In theory, this can cause performance penalty in
cases where single matcher instance is stringified multiple times,
but in practice this does not happen much, and the difference is
surprisingly small anyway, because the performance of stringification
is already horrible and full of allocating strings just to throw
them away.

The matcher combinators need P2738 from C++26 to be `constexpr`.

Closes #3091
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<title>Mark some extra classes final</title>
<updated>2026-04-06T22:13:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2026-04-06T22:13:17+00:00</published>
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<title>Annotate matcher combinators with CATCH_ATTR_LIFETIMEBOUND</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T20:27:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T20:17:03+00:00</published>
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The matcher combinators do not take ownership of the matchers
being combined, which can catch the users off-guard, when code like
this

```cpp
using Catch::Matchers::EndsWith;
using Catch::Matchers::ContainsSubstring;

auto combinedMatcher = EndsWith("as a service")
                       &amp;&amp; ContainsSubstring("web scale");

REQUIRE_THAT( getSomeString(), combinedMatcher );
```

leads to use-after-free, as the `combinedMatcher` refers to matcher
temporaries that no longer exists. With this commit, users of Clang,
MSVC or other compiler that understands the `lifetimebound` attribute,
should get a warning.
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The matcher combinators do not take ownership of the matchers
being combined, which can catch the users off-guard, when code like
this

```cpp
using Catch::Matchers::EndsWith;
using Catch::Matchers::ContainsSubstring;

auto combinedMatcher = EndsWith("as a service")
                       &amp;&amp; ContainsSubstring("web scale");

REQUIRE_THAT( getSomeString(), combinedMatcher );
```

leads to use-after-free, as the `combinedMatcher` refers to matcher
temporaries that no longer exists. With this commit, users of Clang,
MSVC or other compiler that understands the `lifetimebound` attribute,
should get a warning.
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<title>Small include cleanup</title>
<updated>2025-04-29T11:15:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2025-04-29T11:15:34+00:00</published>
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<title>Use variable templates</title>
<updated>2025-04-28T03:14:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>ZXShady</name>
</author>
<published>2025-04-27T18:55:56+00:00</published>
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