RE: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-11 13:00:22

At 08:45 AM 8/11/2003, Jeff Garland wrote:

 >> I've just installed 3.3.1 on Windows, and am getting those same four
 >> failure plus failures from:
 >>
 >>       date_time/testmicrosec_time_clock (runtime failure)
 >
 >This is likely due to the posix API call to std::time not providing
 >stable return values.  That is, when I sample the time rapidly the second
 >value is less than the previous value. So this is more of a platform /
 >library issue than a compiler issue.  This isn't a new problem with this
 >particular configuration...

OK, I've added a note to that effect. Consider the failure accounted for.

Is there any point to report this to someone? Cygwin?

--Beman