Re: [boost] [system] system-0.2 request for comments

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-24 21:27:01

<Oliver.Kowalke_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:5D4F031442F5CB489CF88277DDBACCDD056F32DC_at_drsse401.eu.infineon.com...
> Hi,
>
>> ~/devTools/boost_cvs/libs/system/build$ bjam ...found 225 targets...
>> ...updating 14 targets...
>> gcc-C++-action
>> ../../../bin/boost/libs/system/build/libboost_system.a/gcc/deb
>> ug/error_code.o
>> ../src/error_code.cpp: In function
>> 'std::string<unnamed>::errno_md(const
>> boost::system::error_code&)':
>> ../src/error_code.cpp:190: error: invalid conversion from
>> 'char*' to 'int'
>
>> ///that's the while condition here...
>>
>>      char buf[64];
>>      char * bp = buf;
>>      std::size_t sz = sizeof(buf);
>>      int result;
>>      while ( (result = strerror_r( ec.value(), bp, sz )) == ERANGE )
>>      {
>>        if ( sz > sizeof(buf) ) std::free( bp );
>>        sz *= 2;
>
> /* Reentrant version of `strerror'.
>   There are 2 flavors of `strerror_r', GNU which returns the string
>   and may or may not use the supplied temporary buffer and POSIX one
>   which fills the string into the buffer.
>   To use the POSIX version, -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 or
> -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L
>   without -D_GNU_SOURCE is needed, otherwise the GNU version is
>   preferred.  */

Grrrr... This stuff is going to drive me crazy!

Could I talk you into submitting a patch? You clearly know more about 
differences between these OS's than I do.

Thanks,

--Beman