Re: [Boost-users] [test] Malloc exceptions when using test framework on 64bit OS X 10.6.1

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [test] Malloc exceptions when using test framework on 64bit OS X 10.6.1
From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-14 00:39:34

Peter Soetens wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 20:18, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> AMDG
>>
>> Because there's a better fix that guarantees that it will work
>> correctly on all compilers...
> 
> Which I must have missed. What better fix has been confirmed to solve
> this problem ?

Yes. I've fixed the issue some time ago.

>>> Just #ifdef the virtual around the destructor for GNU compilers and we
>>> can all happily carry on.
>>>
>> IMO, it's a bad idea to throw in a hack to
>> fix a problem without understanding why it works.
> 
> I'm not sure what you're aiming at (my understanding or yours), but
> this is not an argument. What we do know is that making the destructor
> virtual and dropping the cast will produce the correct behavior for
> virtually every C++ compiler out there.

The virtual destructor produces virtually correct behavior on virtually 
every C++ compiler virtually every time ;)

Gennadiy