Unit test accessing private variables

Question

I have a unit test class Tester; I want it to access private fields of a Working class.

class Working {
    // ...
    private:
            


        

Answer 1

-fno-access-control

If you're only using GCC, you can use the compiler option -fno-access-control while compiling your unit tests. This will cause GCC to skip all access checks, but still keep the class layout the same. I don't know if there is a similar option for other compilers, so this isn't a general solution.