Re: [boost] Possible MingW ASIO bug with Boost 1.35.0 g++ 4.2.1

From: Jason Turner (lefticus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-17 15:35:02

Yes, you are correct that it was an unhandled exception. I'm a bit disturbed
that gdb was not cluing me into that.

However, adding the line:

#include <boost/asio/detail/winsock_init.hpp>

Does not solve the problem.

-Jason

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Christopher Kohlhoff <chris_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Jason Turner wrote:
>
>> Some ASIO test code is crashing in a way that I do not understand. GDB is
>> unable to debug it (no stack available on crash) and the error is a rather
>> obtuse "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
>> unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more
>> information."
>>
>>
>> Test code which crashes:
>>
>> #include <boost/asio/ip/address.hpp>
>> #include <iostream>
>>
>> int main()
>> {
>>  std::cout << boost::asio::ip::address::from_string("1.1.2.3") <<
>> std::endl;
>> }
>>
>
> This is probably due to winsock not being initialised automatically as it
> is supposed to. Does the following inclusion sequence make it work?
>
> #include <boost/asio/ip/address.hpp>
> #include <boost/asio/detail/winsock_init.hpp>
> ...
>
> If winsock is not initialised then from_string will fail with an exception,
> which you're not catching.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
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