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<title>catch3/tests/SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/InternalBenchmark.tests.cpp, branch feature/cpp-tools</title>
<subtitle>Progmasoft Catch3: an independently maintained C++17 test framework with a parallel runner, property checks, snapshots and structured results.</subtitle>
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<title>Give Catch3 its own build names and headers</title>
<updated>2026-10-24T23:37:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
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<published>2026-10-24T23:37:35+00:00</published>
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Catch2 compatibility means the API tests are written in: the macros, such
as TEST_CASE and REQUIRE, and the Catch:: namespace. It does not mean
Catch2's build names or header paths. find_package(Catch2) found Catch3,
and a project using both frameworks met two packages, two sets of targets,
two Catch.cmake modules and two catch2/ header trees with the same names.

Build names:
- CMake: project and package Catch3, targets Catch3::Catch3 and
  Catch3::Catch3WithMain, libraries Catch3 and Catch3Main, options
  CATCH3_*, lib/cmake/Catch3 with Catch3Config, and pkg-config catch3 and
  catch3-with-main. The version is Catch3's, 0.3.0, compatible within a
  minor version.
- The CMake scripts are Catch3.cmake (catch3_discover_tests),
  Catch3AddTests.cmake and Catch3ShardTests.cmake
  (catch3_add_sharded_tests); the helpers they define at ctest time have a
  catch3_ prefix. ParseAndAddCatchTests.cmake, deprecated upstream, is gone.
- Bazel //:catch3 and //:catch3_main, Meson catch3 and catch3-with-main
  (with override_dependency), Xmake catch3 and catch3_main, Premake Catch3
  and Catch3WithMain. Visual Studio projects get GUIDs of their own.
- The Progmasoft::Catch3 target and package are gone: property testing
  and snapshots are part of Catch3::Catch3. Their sources now build with
  the library's warning flags, so property failures are built field by
  field (no missing initializers) and the default property name is a
  thread-local pointer to the name its scope owns (no global destructor).

Headers: the engine moved from src/catch2 to src/Progmasoft/Catch3 with
Progmasoft names, so &lt;catch2/catch_test_macros.hpp&gt; is
&lt;Progmasoft/Catch3/TestMacros.hpp&gt;, &lt;catch2/matchers/catch_matchers_string.hpp&gt;
is &lt;Progmasoft/Catch3/Matchers/String.hpp&gt;, and interface headers are named
after their interface, such as Interfaces/IConfig.hpp. Include guards
became #pragma once. The installed headers go to include/Progmasoft.
src/Progmasoft/Context.cpp is StrategyContext.cpp, so no two sources share
a file name.

tools/scripts/upstreamFiles.txt lists the files that come from Catch2.
The license check expects BSL-1.0 on them and Progmasoft's header on the
rest of src/Progmasoft; the convenience-header check, the amalgamation
script and the surrogate tests take the engine's headers from it. The
amalgamated files are regenerated. The header-guard workflow checks for
#pragma once instead of checkguard.

Documents, the README and the release notes describe the new names.
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Catch2 compatibility means the API tests are written in: the macros, such
as TEST_CASE and REQUIRE, and the Catch:: namespace. It does not mean
Catch2's build names or header paths. find_package(Catch2) found Catch3,
and a project using both frameworks met two packages, two sets of targets,
two Catch.cmake modules and two catch2/ header trees with the same names.

Build names:
- CMake: project and package Catch3, targets Catch3::Catch3 and
  Catch3::Catch3WithMain, libraries Catch3 and Catch3Main, options
  CATCH3_*, lib/cmake/Catch3 with Catch3Config, and pkg-config catch3 and
  catch3-with-main. The version is Catch3's, 0.3.0, compatible within a
  minor version.
- The CMake scripts are Catch3.cmake (catch3_discover_tests),
  Catch3AddTests.cmake and Catch3ShardTests.cmake
  (catch3_add_sharded_tests); the helpers they define at ctest time have a
  catch3_ prefix. ParseAndAddCatchTests.cmake, deprecated upstream, is gone.
- Bazel //:catch3 and //:catch3_main, Meson catch3 and catch3-with-main
  (with override_dependency), Xmake catch3 and catch3_main, Premake Catch3
  and Catch3WithMain. Visual Studio projects get GUIDs of their own.
- The Progmasoft::Catch3 target and package are gone: property testing
  and snapshots are part of Catch3::Catch3. Their sources now build with
  the library's warning flags, so property failures are built field by
  field (no missing initializers) and the default property name is a
  thread-local pointer to the name its scope owns (no global destructor).

Headers: the engine moved from src/catch2 to src/Progmasoft/Catch3 with
Progmasoft names, so &lt;catch2/catch_test_macros.hpp&gt; is
&lt;Progmasoft/Catch3/TestMacros.hpp&gt;, &lt;catch2/matchers/catch_matchers_string.hpp&gt;
is &lt;Progmasoft/Catch3/Matchers/String.hpp&gt;, and interface headers are named
after their interface, such as Interfaces/IConfig.hpp. Include guards
became #pragma once. The installed headers go to include/Progmasoft.
src/Progmasoft/Context.cpp is StrategyContext.cpp, so no two sources share
a file name.

tools/scripts/upstreamFiles.txt lists the files that come from Catch2.
The license check expects BSL-1.0 on them and Progmasoft's header on the
rest of src/Progmasoft; the convenience-header check, the amalgamation
script and the surrogate tests take the engine's headers from it. The
amalgamated files are regenerated. The header-guard workflow checks for
#pragma once instead of checkguard.

Documents, the README and the release notes describe the new names.
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<entry>
<title>Add optimizer barrier to benchmark calls of void-returning functions</title>
<updated>2026-08-22T18:43:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2026-08-22T13:19:33+00:00</published>
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The goal is to do the equivalent of clobbering memory, which forces
the compiler to keep side effects that are external to the benchmarked
function, while allowing it to optimize inside the benchmarked function.

E.g. this cannot be optimized away:
```cpp
BENCHMARK("foo") {
    global_count += 1;
};
```

while this can:
```cpp
BENCHMARK("bar") {
    size_t local_count = 0;
    for (size_t i = 0; i &lt; 100; ++i) {
        local_count += 1;
    }
};
```
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The goal is to do the equivalent of clobbering memory, which forces
the compiler to keep side effects that are external to the benchmarked
function, while allowing it to optimize inside the benchmarked function.

E.g. this cannot be optimized away:
```cpp
BENCHMARK("foo") {
    global_count += 1;
};
```

while this can:
```cpp
BENCHMARK("bar") {
    size_t local_count = 0;
    for (size_t i = 0; i &lt; 100; ++i) {
        local_count += 1;
    }
};
```
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<entry>
<title>Don't include numerically unstable tests in approvals</title>
<updated>2024-04-30T17:21:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2024-04-30T17:21:27+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Reduce the number of templates in Benchmarking</title>
<updated>2023-09-08T08:04:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2023-08-31T19:52:08+00:00</published>
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The basic idea was to reduce the number of things dependent on the `Clock`
type. To that end, I replaced `Duration&lt;Clock&gt;` with `IDuration` typedef
for `std::nanoseconds`, and `FloatDuration&lt;Clock&gt;` with `FDuration`
typedef for `Duration&lt;double, std::nano&gt;`. We can generally assume that
any clock's duration can be expressed in nanoseconds, as long as we insert
`duration_cast`s into the right places.

Note that we cannot remove all dependence on `Clock` as a template
arguments, because functions that actually measure the elapsed time have
to use the Clock.

We also changed some template function arguments to pass plain function
pointers, so that the actual implementation can be placed into a cpp file.
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The basic idea was to reduce the number of things dependent on the `Clock`
type. To that end, I replaced `Duration&lt;Clock&gt;` with `IDuration` typedef
for `std::nanoseconds`, and `FloatDuration&lt;Clock&gt;` with `FDuration`
typedef for `Duration&lt;double, std::nano&gt;`. We can generally assume that
any clock's duration can be expressed in nanoseconds, as long as we insert
`duration_cast`s into the right places.

Note that we cannot remove all dependence on `Clock` as a template
arguments, because functions that actually measure the elapsed time have
to use the Clock.

We also changed some template function arguments to pass plain function
pointers, so that the actual implementation can be placed into a cpp file.
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<entry>
<title>Replace vector iterator args in benchmarks with ptr args</title>
<updated>2023-09-08T08:04:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2023-08-31T20:04:54+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Fix some tests never being run</title>
<updated>2023-05-20T20:03:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2023-05-20T20:03:48+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Reduce compilation costs of benchmarks</title>
<updated>2023-05-01T11:21:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2023-04-10T13:03:29+00:00</published>
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We replaced some simple std::algorithm usage by loops, and reduced
header inclusion.
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We replaced some simple std::algorithm usage by loops, and reduced
header inclusion.
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<entry>
<title>Fix references to license file</title>
<updated>2022-10-28T09:30:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lars Toenning</name>
</author>
<published>2022-10-28T09:22:53+00:00</published>
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The license file was renamed with 6a502cc2f5fedd59b3495b58708f0d6d987ed9e1
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The license file was renamed with 6a502cc2f5fedd59b3495b58708f0d6d987ed9e1
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<entry>
<title>Add Wfloat-equal to default-enabled warnings</title>
<updated>2022-05-14T13:47:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2022-05-14T13:37:39+00:00</published>
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This is kinda messy, because there is no good way to signal to
the compiler that some code uses direct comparison of floating
point numbers intentionally, so instead we have to use diagnostic
pragmas.

We also have to over-suppress the test files, because Clang (and
possibly GCC) still issue warnings from template instantiation
even if the instantion site is under warning suppression, so the
template definition has to be under warning suppression as well.

Closes #2406
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This is kinda messy, because there is no good way to signal to
the compiler that some code uses direct comparison of floating
point numbers intentionally, so instead we have to use diagnostic
pragmas.

We also have to over-suppress the test files, because Clang (and
possibly GCC) still issue warnings from template instantiation
even if the instantion site is under warning suppression, so the
template definition has to be under warning suppression as well.

Closes #2406
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<entry>
<title>Use the new licence header in SelfTest's cpp files</title>
<updated>2022-01-28T23:03:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2022-01-28T23:03:43+00:00</published>
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