Re: [boost] shared_ptr under OS X

From: Ben Artin (macdev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-23 14:41:43

In article <2c8df206af943147929336f60d8a4bea_at_[hidden]>,
 Howard Hinnant <hinnant_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Aug 23, 2005, at 4:50 AM, Ben Artin wrote:
> 
> > I consider this a pretty serious error, and that I think we should 
> > understand how it came to pass.

[...]

> <shrug> bugs happen.  Bugs of this nature won't be eradicated unless you 
> outlaw dropping into assembly (and I don't recommend that).

Sure, bugs happen. My main point here is that we should make sure we learn 
something from them -- or, more importantly, that we should learn something from 
them *before* our users learn that Mac OS X releases of boost are not thoroughly 
tested.

> Perhaps an extended public beta of boost releases (all compressed and easy to 
> download) might help?

Can someone explain exactly why this wasn't caught in unit tests? I am not sure 
I understand why we missed this, but I am pretty sure it's important that we try 
to avoid this happening in the future.

Ben

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