Re: [boost] Uncaught exception in testfacet_dll

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-17 18:20:20

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:22:30 -0700, Victor A. Wagner Jr. wrote
> I'm getting a "stop the script" error when running the test for 
> testfacet_dll (VC7.1)
> it pops up a requestor telling me the program terminated 
> unexpectedly, and 
> (unfortunately) waits for a human reply (which causes my scheduled 
> run to stop after 4 hours (it starts at 0300 local)), so I'm not 
> getting the rest of the tests run. I chased it down to a 
> std:exception w/ what() == bad cast I'm refining where the error occurs.
> with the following patches to testfacet.cpp:

Yike...

>...patch snipped and test results...
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> the log appears to show that this test PASSED tho.....
> 
> execute-test 
>
..\bin\boost\libs\date_time\test\testfacet_dll.test\vc7.1\debug\testfacet_dll.run
>          1 file(s) copied.
> **passed** 
>
..\bin\boost\libs\date_time\test\testfacet_dll.test\vc7.1\debug\testfacet_dll.test

That's wierd...

Just so you know, we are trying fix this problem.  Basically something seems
to go wrong when we imbue a stream with the dll version.  The identical code
works perfectly when linked statically.  Of course it works fine in a shared
library on Linux, mingw, etc.  So it's odd that the dll version is flakey....

If we don't find a solution shortly, we will patch the test so it shows the
failure and doesn't halt things...

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> I'm working on getting some better "catch unknown exception" code 
> put together so it can be added readily to tests to keep this from 
> happening in the future.

Where would this 'code go', in the script that runs things or patched as part
of the test code?  If it's in the test code, I wouldn't spend time on it as
this will be resolved soon...

Jeff