Re: [boost] Survey of Libraries and Visual C++

From: Bill Klein (bill_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-22 09:04:36

>> Just a quick note: the debug mode of STLport is incompatible with
>> some of boost (or at least with the regex library). I mentioned
>> this to John Maddock a bit back and, if I remember correctly, we
>> were able to determine the problem but were unsure which of STLport
>> or regex was in the wrong (STLport was asserting that something was
>> illegal where it might possibly have been legal)... Maybe this has
>> changed...

Dave wrote:
>I use STLport's debug mode with regex and have not had a problem. The
>STLport tests are very carefully written. If an assertion fires the bug is
>almost certainly in the client code.

Just took a gander and looks like the problem is gone in newer
versions of regex. Guess it was fixed somewhere along the way...

-Bill Klein <bill_at_[hidden]>