On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:35:48 -0400
Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:

>>Hi All,
>>
>>I'm interested in writing test cases against c++ classes. For testing,
>>I'd like everything to be public so I can call protected and private
>>functions with bad data for negative test cases.
>>
>>I don't want to use friendship since its for testing only (it would
>>pollute the interfaces).
>>
>>Is there a switch to force everything public? If not, how does one
>>typically access the non-public stuff for testing?
>>
>>Jeff

Define private to be public:

	gcc -Dprivate="public"

That could produce compile time errors, but it does no harm to try it.


Magnus