Re: [boost] [uuid] - release schedule

Subject: Re: [boost] [uuid] - release schedule
From: Daniel James (daniel_james_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-02 10:15:03

2010/1/1 Andy Tompkins <atompkins_at_[hidden]>:
>
> I updated the documentation (added the markup - thank you, and
> reorganized).  I also marked all the tests on a few platforms as
> expected failures (I hope I did it right).

It looks good to me.

> I don't know what is wrong with the tests for sun-5.10
> (http://tinyurl.com/yeuelll).

Looks like a compiler bug. It gets confused by passing an array and a
pointer. Try the attached patch, it also fixes a minor bug (digits_end
is incorrect in your current version and will return an unspecified
result if c is '\0') and adds a small optimization to avoid checking
the pointer. There isn't actually much point in using std::distance,
you could just subtract, but I left that alone.

The patch also contains a fix for the very slow test_generators on OS
X. It turns out that every time you open '/dev/random' it initiates
it, which is very slow. So the patch opens it once when seed_rng is
created and reuses the same stream.

Daniel