Re: [boost] Re: Remaining GCC failures

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-04 13:28:44

At 08:16 PM 1/1/2004, Beman Dawes wrote:
 >At 01:53 PM 1/1/2004, David Abrahams wrote:
 > >Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
 > >
 > >> As far as the Boost regression tests go, there hasn't be a lot of
 > >> progress with GCC. The same Boost tests have been failing for the 
last
 > >> four or five GCC releases, regardless of operating system.
 > >>
 > >> This sounds to me as if the Boost developers must think the problems
 > >> lie with GCC (or just plain aren't paying attention), while the GCC
 > >> folks think the problems lie with Boost (or just plain aren't paying
 > >> attention).
 > >>
 > >> Someone needs to step forward and break the log-jam. File bug 
reports,
 > >> email developers, and make sure someone is actively working on each
 > >> issue. I've been doing that with Intel, Metrowerks, and Microsoft and
 > >> it does work, typically resulting in fixes for both Boost and 
compiler
 > >> (or occasionally std library) code.
 > >>
 > >> Any volunteers for GCC?
 > >
 >The failures for the Win32 cgg 3.3.1 tests are:
 >
 >   ...
 >   regex/ 9 failures (runtime crashes)

These have now been cleared with help from John Maddock, and from Gerrit 
Haase on the cygwin mailing list. Deleting all cygwin files and doing a 
complete reinstall cleared the problem.

--Beman