Re: operators.hpp changes causing GCC 2.95.2-6 to loop

From: Daryle Walker (darylew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-02 13:06:08

on 12/1/01 9:43 AM, Helmut Zeisel at helmut.zeisel_at_[hidden] wrote:

> I could reproduce the problem using Cygwin / GCC 2.95.3-5.
> 
> Replacing 
> 
> struct random_access_iterator_helper
> 
> at the very bottom of the file with the previous version gives a working
> iterators_test.
> 
> The corrected version can be found at
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/big_int/dlw_oprs2a.zip
> 
> Clearly this change makes some additions of Daryle useless, so maybe Daryle
> might know a better solution.

I don't know of one, so far.

> I am sorry to say that I am currently on a business trip and cannot do much
> testing until Dec 10; hopefully my change is a good starting point to
> completely fix the problem.

I checked this new version.  Helmut did the same changes as Dave did to the
file, except Helmut only changed the random-iterator part.  So there's no
need to add these changes in.

> --- In boost_at_y..., "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_r...> wrote:
>> I checked in Daryle and Helmut's recent work on operators.hpp yesterday. Can
>> you systematically hack out parts of iterators_test.cpp until you find the
>> offending line with a binary search?

>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_a...>
>> To: <boost_at_y...>
>> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 9:59 AM
>> Subject: [boost] operators.hpp changes causing GCC 2.95.2-6 to loop
>> 
>> 
>>> In the Win32 regression test, GCC 2.95.2-6 is looping while compiling
>>> iterators_test.cpp.
>>> 
>>> There was a first error message regarding operators.hpp before the loop.
>>> 
>>> This didn't happen yesterday, so I reverted operators.hpp to the 1.25.1
>>> version.  The compile then ran without error or warning, and the test
>>> passed.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?

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