Re: [boost] Teeks GCC test failures - multiprecision, spirit and others

Subject: Re: [boost] Teeks GCC test failures - multiprecision, spirit and others
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-03-20 18:36:39

I'm running:
$ gcc-4.7 --version
gcc-4.7 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-2ubuntu1~12.04) 4.7.3

This is running on Ubuntu 12.04.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Andrey Semashev
<andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Thursday 20 March 2014 19:32:22 John Maddock wrote:
>> There are a lot of inscrutable failures from the Teeks machines running
>> GCC on linux that I'm unable to reproduce (and aren't reproduced by
>> other testers), for example:
>> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/output/teeks99-03d-> Ubuntu12-04-64-boost-bin-v2-libs-multiprecision-test-ublas5_et-test-gcc-4-7-
>> debug.html
>>
>> All the failures refer to is_convertible, and have an instantiation back
>> trace that leads nowhere (a line that doesn't instantiate anything, and
>> which refers to Boost.Range which multiprecision doesn't use).  I see
>> similar failures in the spirit tests as well.  Is anyone able to
>> reproduce these?  Any ideas what may be going on?  The failures are on
>> the master branch as well if that helps.
>
> I can't reproduce it on my local machine (gcc 4.7.3 on Ubuntu 13.10), but it's
> possible that my gcc is not the same as the one the tester uses.
>
> My guess is that this may be a compiler problem. Your code includes
> range/iterator_range_core.hpp indirectly via lexical_cast.hpp, which is
> included in multiprecision/detail/number_base.hpp. (Hint: You can add -H
> switch to gcc command line in the error log to track down the include chain.)
>
> I think that the problem could be that FP_NAN and/or FP_INFINITE are declares
> as anonymous enum constants. The compiler tries to find operator== through ADL
> and finds templated boost::operator== from Boost.Range and tries to
> instantiate it with the anonymous enum type and breaks. Again, this is just my
> guess. You could try to work it around by explicitly casting the constants to
> int.
>
>
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