RE: [boost] Formal Review: The Spirit Parser Framework, possible problem with debug iterators

From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmutkaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-19 06:24:41

Thorsten Ottosen wrote:

> I used spirit 1.3.2 on my last semester project. It was nice
> to use much of
> it, but a big drawback
> was that debug iterators was somehow not supported. Forgive me for not
> having tried with the
> newest version, and forgive me if the problem no longer
> exist, but we all
> need more time than we have :-)
>
> The problem appeared when we used the debug iterators of
> STLport (STLPort
> 4.5.3). The spirit template
> code would refuse to use them. I guess the problem could be
> either in Spirit
> or in STLport. The problem
> was really irritating because we could not use debug
> iterators in any other
> code that needed to link with our parser; therefore
> we didn't use debug iterators at all which costed us a great
> deal of extra
> time.

I've never heard before, that this problem exists. Could you please
provide a more concrete example of the appearence of this bug, may be
some sample code, how to reproduce it?

Which compiler do you use?

Regards Hartmut