Re: [boost] std::string construction/assignment

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-31 13:20:51

Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> One of my unit tests is failing because following code throw an exception
> (gcc 3.2.3 linux):
> 
> #include <list>
> #include <string>
> 
> int main()
> {
>     std::list<char> l;
> 
>     l.push_back( 'a' );
>     l.push_back( 'b' );
>     l.push_back( 'c' );
> 
>     std::string( l.begin(), l.end() );
> 
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> Does it supposed to work? Is there workarounds?

Yes, that should work. Looks like a bug in gcc 3.2.3;
I can see the crash here, too. gcc 3.1, gcc 3.3.5 and
gcc 3.4 work correctly (gcc 2.95.3 is unable to deal
with the templates involved).

Regards,
m