Re: [boost] [serialization] Clearing Intel/Windows errors?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-02 12:01:49

Robert Ramey wrote:
> This module is extremely trick and has much compiler dependent
> code.  I might be tempted to take a crack at it but without being able
> to test it, I'm afraid I might create more problems than I fix. FWIW
> I don't think the fix for the intel/win issue would be too hard, but
> it would have to be tested in release build as well as debug build
> as the offending code is required on some platforms to inhibit
> the linker from stripping what otherwise would be considered
> dead code.
> 
> A similar situation exists with the same tests failing with gcc 4.1+
> Its even more problematic there as it fails at runtime and I think
> it will take some serious sleuthing with the debugger to track
> it down.
> 
> On the branch "serialization_next_release" I've got a version
> which has a fair amount of changes in this area.  These changes
> were made in the course of making the serialization library
> thread safe and serialization code linkable at runtime (DLLS).
> The later in particular required a more thorough examination
> of issues related to instantiation implied by export.  So it seems
> quite possible to me that this problem is already fixed in the
> "next release" If someone wanted to test the serialization library
> on this branch on the  above platforms (gcc 4.1x and Intel/win 10.?)
>  it might shed some light on the situation.

I've got Windows / Intel 10.x installed. I'll give it a try and contact 
you privately with the results.

--Beman