Re: [boost] [xpressive] HP-UX_ia64_aCC problem ... care to help?

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-03 00:53:21

Boris Gubenko wrote:
>   test_actions crashes when std::string is trying to dereference _C_data
>   member which happens to be zero. It happens inside regex_match().
>   Attached slightly reduced reproducer.
> 
>   test_symbols.cpp has a similar call to regex_match() and I'm sure it
>   crashes for the same reason.
> 
>   Just rearranging the code in RW library <string> header makes the
>   crash disappear which may be indicative of a code generation problem.
>   And everything is fine when compiling with g++ 4.2.1.
> 
>   I suggest, unless you have a reason to believe that it may be some
>   code in xpressive that is causing the problem, we treat these test
>   failures as aC++ code generation problem at this point. We'll
>   investigate it and report back.

Wow, you mean I don't have to do anything? That's great! :-) Thanks for 
investigating this, Boris. Let me know what you find out.

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Eric Niebler
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