Re: [boost] Possible MingW ASIO bug with Boost 1.35.0 g++ 4.2.1

From: Christopher Kohlhoff (chris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-01 08:28:59

Jason Turner wrote:
> Some ASIO test code is crashing in a way that I do not understand. GDB is
> unable to debug it (no stack available on crash) and the error is a rather
> obtuse "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
> unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more
> information."
> 
> 
> Test code which crashes:
> 
> #include <boost/asio/ip/address.hpp>
> #include <iostream>
> 
> int main()
> {
>   std::cout << boost::asio::ip::address::from_string("1.1.2.3") <<
> std::endl;
> }

This is probably due to winsock not being initialised automatically as 
it is supposed to. Does the following inclusion sequence make it work?

#include <boost/asio/ip/address.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/detail/winsock_init.hpp>
...

If winsock is not initialised then from_string will fail with an 
exception, which you're not catching.

Cheers,
Chris