Re: [boost] utility/value_init.hpp: VC 7.1 ICE & workaround

From: Niels Dekker - mail address until 2008-12-31 (nd_mail_address_valid_until_2008-12-31_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-14 11:25:16

>> The ICE did not occur when doing the unit tests
>> (value_init_test.cpp).

Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
> The Boost.Python unit tests are also fine. Even most of our real
> code compiles with the svn head as is. Only about 20 of our 60 or so
> extensions fail with the ICE.

Your patch looks perfectly fine to me, but I'm still curious to know in what 
particular circumstances my code causes a compiler crash.

> If you want to reproduce the problem, I could point you to
> the sources.

Please do  :-)  Maybe the specific scenario should be added to the unit 
test!

> But I think it would be a bit too much effort since the
> problem is resolved so easily

It was my very first Boost commit, and Fernando and I have put a lot of 
effort in making it MSVC-compliant, so I find it rather shocking that it 
causes an ICE!

Kind regards,

Niels
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Niels Dekker
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Scientific programmer at LKEB, Leiden University Medical Center