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@@ -112,11 +112,14 @@ terminates the test case if the condition is not satisfied. For example:
KUNIT_EXPECT_LE(test, a[i], a[i + 1]);
}
-In this example, the method under test should return pointer to a value. If the
-pointer returns null or an errno, we want to stop the test since the following
-expectation could crash the test case. `ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(...)` allows us
-to bail out of the test case if the appropriate conditions are not satisfied to
-complete the test.
+In this example, we need to be able to allocate an array to test the ``sort()``
+function. So we use ``KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL()`` to abort the test if
+there's an allocation error.
+
+.. note::
+ In other test frameworks, ``ASSERT`` macros are often implemented by calling
+ ``return`` so they only work from the test function. In KUnit, we stop the
+ current kthread on failure, so you can call them from anywhere.
Customizing error messages
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