C TAP Harness 4.5

Peter Paris requested that C TAP Harness support being built as C++ code. I've not been a big fan of doing this with pure C code since I find some of the requirements of C++ mildly irritating, but Peter's initial patch also fixed one type error in a malloc uncovered because of one of C++'s rules requiring the return of malloc be cast. It turned out to be a mostly harmless error since the code was allocating a larger struct than it needed to, but it's still evidence that there's some potential here for catching bugs.

That said, adding an explicit cast to every malloc isn't likely to catch bugs. That's just having to repeat oneself in every allocation, and you're nearly as likely to repeat yourself incorrectly.

However, if one is willing to use a macro instead of malloc directly, this is fixable, and I'm willing to do that since I was already using a macro for allocation to do error handling. So I've modified the code to pass in the type of object to allocate instead of the size, and then used a macro to add the return cast. This makes for somewhat cleaner code and also makes it possible to build the code as pure C++. I also added some functions to the TAP generator library, bcalloc_type and breallocarray_type, that take the same approach. (I didn't remove the old functions, to maintain backward compatibility.)

I'm reasonably happy with the results, although it's a bit of a hassle and I'm not sure if I'm going to go to the trouble in all of my other C packages. But I'm at least considering it. (Of course, I'm also considering rewriting them all in Rust, and considering my profound lack of time to do either of these things.)

You can get the latest release from the C TAP Harness distribution page.