Infinite Loop when calling a mock function that takes boost::filesystem::path...

Infinite Loop when calling a mock function that takes boost::filesystem::path as parameter #521: Add is_same type trait and prevent infinite loops for recursive containers

googletest/include/gtest/gtest-printers.h

@@ -460,15 +460,17 @@ void PrintTo(const T& value, ::std::ostream* os) {
   // DefaultPrintTo() is overloaded.  The type of its first argument
   // determines which version will be picked.
   //
-  // Note that we check for container types here, prior to we check
-  // for protocol message types in our operator<<.  The rationale is:
+  // Note that we check for recursive and other container types here, prior 
+  // to we check for protocol message types in our operator<<.  The rationale is:
   //
   // For protocol messages, we want to give people a chance to
   // override Google Mock's format by defining a PrintTo() or
   // operator<<.  For STL containers, other formats can be
   // incompatible with Google Mock's format for the container
   // elements; therefore we check for container types here to ensure
-  // that our format is used.
+  // that our format is used. To prevent an infinite runtime recursion
+  // during the output of recursive container types, we check first for
+  // those.
   //
   // Note that MSVC and clang-cl do allow an implicit conversion from
   // pointer-to-function to pointer-to-object, but clang-cl warns on it.
@@ -477,7 +479,8 @@ void PrintTo(const T& value, ::std::ostream* os) {
   // function pointers so that the `*os << p` in the object pointer overload
   // doesn't cause that warning either.
   DefaultPrintTo(
-      WrapPrinterType<sizeof(IsContainerTest<T>(0)) == sizeof(IsContainer)
+      WrapPrinterType<
+          (sizeof(IsContainerTest<T>(0)) == sizeof(IsContainer)) && !IsRecursiveContainer<T>::value
             ? kPrintContainer : !is_pointer<T>::value
               ? kPrintOther
 #if GTEST_LANG_CXX11

googletest/include/gtest/internal/gtest-internal.h

@@ -940,6 +940,31 @@ typedef char IsNotContainer;
 template <class C>
 IsNotContainer IsContainerTest(long /* dummy */) { return '\0'; }
 
+template <typename C, bool = 
+  sizeof(IsContainerTest<C>(0)) == sizeof(IsContainer)
+>
+struct IsRecursiveContainerImpl;
+
+template <typename C>
+struct IsRecursiveContainerImpl<C, false> : public false_type {};
+
+template <typename C>
+struct IsRecursiveContainerImpl<C, true> {
+  typedef
+    typename IteratorTraits<typename C::iterator>::value_type
+  value_type;
+  typedef is_same<value_type, C> type;
+};
+
+// IsRecursiveContainer<Type> is a unary compile-time predicate that
+// evaluates whether C is a recursive container type. A recursive container 
+// type is a container type whose value_type is equal to the container type
+// itself. An example for a recursive container type is 
+// boost::filesystem::path, whose iterator has a value_type that is equal to 
+// boost::filesystem::path.
+template<typename C>
+struct IsRecursiveContainer : public IsRecursiveContainerImpl<C>::type {};
+
 // EnableIf<condition>::type is void when 'Cond' is true, and
 // undefined when 'Cond' is false.  To use SFINAE to make a function
 // overload only apply when a particular expression is true, add

googletest/include/gtest/internal/gtest-port.h

@@ -2241,6 +2241,12 @@ template <bool bool_value> const bool bool_constant<bool_value>::value;
 typedef bool_constant<false> false_type;
 typedef bool_constant<true> true_type;
 
+template <typename T, typename U>
+struct is_same : public false_type {};
+
+template <typename T>
+struct is_same<T, T> : public true_type {};
+
 template <typename T>
 struct is_pointer : public false_type {};