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Review Wizard Status Report for January 2015
by Ron Garcia 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

============================================== Review Wizard Status Report for January 2015 ============================================== News ==== 1. Boost 1.56 Released November 2014. New Libraries: none 2. Sort Accepted. November 2014. 3. Compute Accepted. December 2014. Open Issues =========== The following libraries have review managers, but have not yet been scheduled for review: * Range Extensions - added May 2012; review manager: Neil Groves. The following libraries have been accepted to Boost, but have not yet been integrated into Boost Git: * Contract - accepted September 2012; author: Lorenzo Caminiti. * Sort - accepted November 2014: author: . * Compute - accepted December 2014: author: . The following libraries have been accepted and submitted to Boost Git, but have not yet appeared in a release: * Convert - accepted June 2014; author: Vladimir Batov. The following libraries have been accepted provisionally to Boost, but have not been submitted for mini-review and full acceptance: * Endian - accepted provisionally September 2011; author Beman Dawes. * Fiber - accepted provisionally January 2014; author Oliver Kowalke. General Announcements ===================== As always, we need experienced review managers. Please take a look at the list of libraries in need of managers and check out their descriptions. In general review managers are active boost participants, including library contributors, infrastructure contributors, and other mailing list participants with a substantial track record of constructive participation. If you can serve as review manager for any of them, email Ron Garcia or John Phillips, "rxg at cs dot ubc dot ca" and "johnphillipsithica at gmail dot com" respectively. We are also suffering from a lack of reviewers. While we all understand time pressures and the need to complete paying work, the strength of Boost is based on the detailed and informed reviews submitted by you. If you are interested in reviewing a library but won't have time during the review period, you can always prepare your review ahead of time. No rule says you can only work on a review during the review period. A link to this report will be posted to www.boost.org. If you would like us to make any modifications or additions to this report, please email Ron or John. The review schedule is an unordered list of the libraries awaiting review. As such, any library on the schedule can be reviewed once the developer is ready, a review manager has been secured, and the manager, developer, and wizards agree on a date to schedule the review. Review Schedule =============== * Join (M) * Sorting (M) * Quaternions, Vectors, Matrices (M) * Block Pointer (M) * Singularity (M) * Extended Complex Numbers (M) * Metaparse (M) * Boost.Range Extensions * Nowide (M) * Array (M) * STL Extensions (M) * Countertree (M) * Process (M) * Asynchronous File I/O (M) * Application (M) * Edit Distance (M) * Mixin (M) * Dependency Injection (M) * DLL (M) ``(M)`` marks libraries that need review managers. -------------------- Join ---- :Author: Yigong Liu :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://channel.sourceforge.net/ :Description: Join is an asynchronous, message based C++ concurrency library based on join calculus. It is applicable both to multi-threaded applications and to the orchestration of asynchronous, event-based applications. It follows Comega's design and implementation and builds with Boost facilities. It provides a high level concurrency API with asynchronous methods, synchronous methods, and chords which are "join-patterns" defining the synchronization, asynchrony, and concurrency. Sorting ------- :Author: Steven Ross :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/boost-vault/Sorting :Description: A grouping of 3 templated hybrid radix/comparison-based sorting algorithms that provide superior worst-case and average-case performance to std::sort: integer_sort, which sorts fixed-size data types that support a rightshift (default of >>) and a comparison (default of <) operator. float_sort, which sorts standard floating-point numbers by safely casting them to integers. string_sort, which sorts variable-length data types, and is optimized for 8-bit character strings. All 3 algorithms have O(n(k/s + s)) runtime where k is the number of bits in the data type and s is a constant, and limited memory overhead (in the kB for realistic inputs). In testing, integer_sort varies from 35% faster to 2X as fast as std::sort, depending on processor, compiler optimizations, and data distribution. float_sort is roughly 70% faster than std::sort. string_sort is roughly 2X as fast as std::sort. Quaternions, Vectors, Matrices ------------------------------ :Author: Emil Dotchevski :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://www.revergestudios.com/boost-qvm/ :Description: QVM defines a set of generic functions and operator overloads for working with quaternions, vectors and matrices of static size. The library also defines vector and matrix data types, however it allows users to introduce their own types by specializing the q_traits, v_traits and m_traits templates. Block Pointer ------------- :Author: Phil Bouchard :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/block_ptr/ :Description: Deterministic memory manager of constant complexity capable of handling cyclic collections. Singularity ----------- :Author: Ben Robinson :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/cppmaven/Singularity :Description: The Singularity Design Pattern allows you to restrict any class to a single instance. Unlike the infamous Singleton, Singularity gives you direct control over the lifetime of the object, does not require you to grant global access to the object, nor does it limit you to the default constructor for that object. Extended Complex Numbers ------------------------ :Author: Matthieu Schaller :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://code.google.com/p/cpp-imaginary-numbers/ :Description: The library is an extension of the std::complex class addressing two issues: 1. The standard does not guaranty the behaviour of the complex class if instantiated with types other than float/double/long double. 2. Some calculation where pure imaginary numbers (i.e. multiples of sqrt(-1)) appear are unnecessarily slowed down due to the lack of support for these numbers. The code I submit contains two interleaved classes boost::complex and boost::imaginary which can be instantiated with any type T provided T overloads the usual arithmetic operators and some basic (real) mathematical functions depending on which complex function will be used. It is thus an extended version of Thorsten Ottosen's n1869 proposal (http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2005/n1869.html) Metaparse --------- :Author: Abel Sinkovics :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://abel.web.elte.hu/metaparse/metaparse.zip :Description: Metaparse is a library for constructing parsers parsing at compile-time based on template metaprogramming. The parsers built with the library take boost::mpl::strings as input and can produce - types - objects (types with public static members) - callable C++ functions (types with public static method) - template metafunction classes as output (based on the input being parsed). On compilers supporting constexpr the library provides the following syntactic sugar for writing the input of the parsers: BOOST_STRING("this is a string") The library can be used for implementing DSLs in C++, including DSLs making C++ template metaprogramming easier (see examples). Range Extensions ---------------- :Author: Akira Takahashi :Review Manager: Neil Groves :Download: https://github.com/faithandbrave/OvenToBoost :Description: This project adds some features of the Oven Range Library to Boost.Range. Features: - Additional Range Adaptors (taken, taken_while, dropped, dropped_while, elements, elements_key, memoized, outdirected) - Extensions for using Lambda (regular function, regular operator) - Infinite Range (iteration function) - and additional range utilities. Nowide ------ :Author: Artyom Beilis :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://cppcms.com/files/nowide/ :Description: This library makes cross platform Unicode aware programming easier. It provides an implementation of standard C and C++ library functions, such that their inputs are UTF-8 aware on Windows without requiring to use Wide API. Array ----- :Author: Brian Smith :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/BrianJSmith/Array :Description: The array class is a C++11 compatible implementation of static multidimensional arrays. STL Extensions -------------- :Author: Vadim Stadnik :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/vstadnik/stl_ext_adv_review :Description: The proposed library [stl_ext_adv] offers augmented array based B+ trees and STL containers that support the interfaces of the C++03 sequences and associative containers. The library offers a number of extensions and performance improvements that are not available in C++03 and C++11 standard containers. Countertree ----------- :Author: Francisco Jose Tapia :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8437476/works/countertree_code_doc.zip :Description: This library is an implementation of a binary red-black counter tree. This tree have an additional counter in each leaf. This permit the access to the elements by the position, like in a vector. It is a random access container with random access iterators. COUNTERTREE This kind of trees have an additional counter in each leaf. This permit the access to the elements by the position, like in a vector. It is a random access container with random access iterators. With unordered information we have a vector with the same speed inserting and deleting in any position (O(log N)). With ordered information, we have the classes set, multiset, map and multimap, with identical interface than the STL classes, with the plus of access to the elements by position, like in a vector. The iterators are random access , and you can subtract them. SUBALLOCATOR The suballocator is a layer between the allocator and the data structures, compatible with any allocator with the STL definition. The suballocator replace to the allocator in the allocation of equal size elements. It provides speed, return the unused memory and decrease the memory used by the program and improve the cache performance due to the data locality improvement ( 30% of improvement of speed respect the std::allocator with GCC 4.7) Process ------- :Author: Boris Schaeling :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://www.highscore.de/boost/process0.5/process.zip :Description: Boost.Process is a library to manage system processes. It can be used to: * create child processes * setup streams for child processes * communicate with child processes through streams (synchronously or asynchronously) * wait for processes to exit (synchronously or asynchronously) * terminate processes Asynchronous File I/O --------------------- :Author: Niall Douglas and Paul Kirth :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/BoostGSoC/boost.afio/archive/boost-peer-review.tar.gz :Description: Boost.AFIO is a linear scalable, batch, chainable, asynchronous closure execution engine with an almost wait free implementation extending Boost.ASIO and Boost.Thread specialised as a portable asynchronous file i/o implementation library. Implementation of this first version has been kept as simple as possible (~ 1000 active LOC) at the cost of some performance, though with a good compiler you can expect 25-50% of the performance of using raw Boost.ASIO. Application ----------- :Author: Renato Tegon Forti :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/retf/Boost.Application :Documentation: http://www.dokfile.com/appbeta4/docs/libs/application/doc/html/index.html :Description: Application provides an application environment, or start point to any people that want a basic infrastructure to build an system application on Windows or Unix Variants (e.g. Linux, MacOS). Application uses behaviours modeled using 'aspects' concept proposed by 'Vicente J. Botet Escriba', that allow easy extension and customization of library components. The application modes uses these components internally to achieve the user desirable behaviours. Application provide many useful ready-to-use features, e.g: * Run application as Windows Service; * Run application as UNIX/POSIX Daemon; * Plugin extension system; * Process(executable) Single instance Instantiation support; * Application SIGNAL/Callbacks customization; * Windows Service Setup feature; * And many others. Edit Distance ------------- :Author: Erik Erlandson :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/erikerlandson/algorithm/tree/edit_distance/sequence :Description: The edit distance is the length of the shortest (or least-cost) edit script from one sequence to another, where an edit script is defined as a sequence of insertion, deletion and (optionally) substitution operations. The function implementing the edit distance is named edit_distance. This function will return the edit distance between two sequences, where sequences may be any valid range object supporting forward iteration. The edit_distance function will also, if requested, return the edit script. Mixin ----- :Author: Borislav Stanimirov :Download: https://github.com/iboB/boost.mixin :Documentation: http://ibob.github.io/boost.mixin/ :Review Manager: Needed :Description: Boost.Mixin is a library that allows the composition and modifications of polymorphic types at run time. Types and objects are constructed out of building blocks called mixins. The library uses the type boost::mixin::object as a placeholder, whose instances can be extended with existing classes (mixins), thus providing a particular instance with the functionality of all those types. Accessing the newly formed type's interface is made through messages: stand-alone functions generated by the library, which can be thought of as methods. This is given while also having full abstraction between the interface and the definition of types. An existing feature in another language similar to Boost.Mixin and also an inspiration for the library are the mixins in Ruby. The library also has similarities with the pattern entity-component-system. Dependency Injection -------------------- :Author: :Download: https://github.com/krzysztof-jusiak/di :Documentation: http://krzysztof-jusiak.github.io/di/boost/libs/di/doc/html :Incubator: http://rrsd.com/blincubator.com/bi_library/di-dependency-injection/?gform_p… :Review Manager: Needed :Description: Boost.DI is a dependency injection library improving manual dependency injection by simplifying object instantiation with automatic dependencies injection. Using Boost.DI has many advantages over manual dependency injection. * Reduce boilerplate code (No factories, no objects creation in specific order) * Reduce cost of maintenance effort (Constructor signature change won't affect di configuration) * Reduce testing effort * Give better control of what and how is created (Policies, Providers) * Give better understanding about objects hierarchy (UML Dumper) DLL --- :Author: Antony Polukhin :Download: https://github.com/apolukhin/Boost.DLL :Documentation: http://apolukhin.github.io/Boost.DLL/index.html :Review Manager: Needed :Description: This library was designed to simplify plugin development using C++ in a portable cross-platform manner. Library provides a portable across platforms way to: * load libraries * import any native functions and variables * make alias names for C++ mangled functions and symbols * query libraries for sections and exported symbols * self loading and self querying * getting program and module location by exported symbol Libraries under development =========================== See The Boost Library Incubator Project at http://blincubator.com for discussion of libraries currently under development.

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problems building Boost-1.55.0 in 32b machines with c++11
by Patricia Mendez Lorenzo 22 Jan '15

22 Jan '15

Dear Boost experts, since a while I am trying to compile Boost from the source in a 32b linux machine with c++11 enabled. The compiler version used is gcc4.8.1 This is performed through cmake as follows: --> Configuration: bootstrap.sh --with-python=<path to /bin/python> --with-toolset=gcc --> Build: /b2 -j4 variant=release --layout=versioned --debug-configuration --toolset=gcc --user-config=<path to a user-config.jam> Where user-config.jam contains the following information: using gcc : : : <linkflags>-m32 <compileflags>-m32 -std=gnu++0x also tested it with -std=c++11 And finally installed which basically contains the same options as the build adding --prefix=<installation dir> The libraries built following this procedure does not seem to have been created with c++11. If I compare the signatures of the same library build in 64 against 32 the result are In 64: nm --defined-only --demangle libboost_filesystem-gcc48-mt-1_55.so | grep copy_file boost::filesystem::detail::copy_file(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::filesystem::copy_option, boost::system::error_code*) In 32, the same produces: boost::filesystem::detail::copy_file(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::filesystem::copy_option::enum_type, boost::system::error_code*) The difference seems to come from wrong i686 build options. Could you please help me to find the good options to build these libs in 32b with c+=11 enabled? Thank you so much,

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Question about subgraph isomorphism function
by Shouwei Li 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Hi Guys, I am using boost graph library in my research project about graph theory. One object is testing whether graph G1 has a subgraph isomorphic to another graph G2. I only care about the result, "yes" or "no", and don't expected to find out a isomorphism pattern. I use the library function vf2_subgraph_iso(), but the third parameter is a callback function which will print out the isomorphic pattern all the time. Is there any way to omit this parameter or eliminate the output pattern. Here is my code snippet: ----------------------------------------------------- vf2_print_callback<Graph, Graph> callback(C4, g); if (!vf2_subgraph_iso(C4, g, callback) { // something; } else { // something; } __________________________________ Thanks for you attention! Best Regards! Shouwei

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How to build modular boost for android?
by Robert Dailey 19 Jan '15

19 Jan '15

How do I build modular boost for android? I have it checked out from github at the 1.57 tag. I don't see a user-config.jam file, except for at "tools/build/example/user-config.jam". The structure is completely changed, where do I need to make changes? What changes do I make? Any guidance is appreciated. I'm no where near an expert here, I just need a quick ad-hoc solution. Thanks.

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[interval] Guaranteed interval arithmetic for "long double"
by Александров Петр 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Hello. Is guaranteed interval arithmetic for "long double" supported by Boost Interval library on x86-64 CPU, Linux, Clang or GCC? Kind regards, Petr.

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[Coroutine] Migrating coroutines between different threads
by lin li 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Hi, people. I have a question about the coroutines in boost (both the normal Coroutine and the asio couroutine). Can I suspend a coroutine in one thread, then later on resume it in another thread? I have been googling about this and found some (outdated) documents saying that this is not possible ( http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/soc/coroutine/coroutine/coroutine_threa… ). However, I did not find this warning in the document of the current release. Is this limitation still there or not?

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init log with BOOST_LOG_INLINE_GLOBAL_LOGGER_DEFAULT
by Bill Tian 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Hi guys, I want to define a global logger that can be used in other place. The severity level always be "info". I init the log like this: #include <cstdlib> #include <boost/log/trivial.hpp> #include <boost/log/core.hpp> #include <boost/log/sources/global_logger_storage.hpp> #include <boost/log/sources/severity_logger.hpp> #include <boost/log/sources/record_ostream.hpp> #include <boost/log/sources/severity_feature.hpp> // Here we define our application severity levels. enum severity_level { normal, notification, warning, error, critical }; // The formatting logic for the severity level template< typename CharT, typename TraitsT > inline std::basic_ostream< CharT, TraitsT >& operator<< (std::basic_ostream< CharT, TraitsT >& strm, severity_level lvl) { static const char* const str[] = { "normal", "notification", "warning", "error", "critical" }; if (static_cast<std::size_t>(lvl) < (sizeof(str) / sizeof(*str))) strm << str[lvl]; else strm << static_cast<int>(lvl); return strm; } // Global logger declaration BOOST_LOG_INLINE_GLOBAL_LOGGER_DEFAULT(test_lg, boost::log::sources::severity_logger_mt<severity_level>) void try_logging() { boost::log::sources::severity_logger_mt<severity_level>& lg = test_lg::get(); // TODO: // always write "info" record, Unknown reason! BOOST_LOG_SEV(lg, normal) << "This is a normal severity record"; BOOST_LOG_SEV(lg, notification) << "This is a notification severity record"; BOOST_LOG_SEV(lg, warning) << "This is a warning severity record"; BOOST_LOG_SEV(lg, error) << "This is a error severity record"; BOOST_LOG_SEV(lg, critical) << "This is a critical severity record"; } int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { try_logging(); return EXIT_SUCCESS; } In the log i got this: [2015-01-14 19:00:34.800935] [0x40000300] [info] This is a normal severity re cord [2015-01-14 19:00:34.805935] [0x40000300] [info] This is a notification sever ity record [2015-01-14 19:00:34.806935] [0x40000300] [info] This is a warning severity r ecord [2015-01-14 19:00:34.806935] [0x40000300] [info] This is a error severity rec ord [2015-01-14 19:00:34.806935] [0x40000300] [info] This is a critical severity record What do i miss? Thank you! Bill

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Re: [Boost-users] unit test BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE absolute
by lepere renaud 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

>> For example, I am comparing coordinates in 2d spaces and the relative >> value is not important, the meaningfull value is the absolute difference >> between coordinates. > > It is almost never true. Related error gives you much better estimate of > closeness. I agree with that most of the time but this is not always true. Just imagine the case you compare lattitude, longitude. In this case, only absolute values make sense. > >> I have seen that I can do a >> BOOST_CHECK_SMALL(fabs(x - expected_x), 1e-3); >> >> but in this can I don't have a good message when the test fails (it does >> not show the value of x and the expected_x). >> >> In fact I would like to have something like BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE_ABSOLUTE ? >> Is there something equivalent or how can I do something like this ? > > Don't. Specify relative tolerance (or percent tolerance) and keep using > BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE. Relative tolerance will give me false bug report, I want a point to be equal to (0, 0) with a small absolute error and I don't care if it is -1e-15 or +1e-10 so BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE is not an option here and I have to use BOOST_CHECK_SMALL with the absolute difference. The problem with BOOST_CHECK_SMALL(fabs(x - expected_x), 1e-3); Is that when it fails with the message that does not print the values "x" and "expected_x" and does not say something like x(2.0) is not equal to "expected_x(0.0)" with an difference of 1e-3. I can probably write my own macro combining BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE() and some glues to obtain what I want but I was wondering if someone had the same problem and a solution. Thanks Renaud

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[Boost.build] Building for ARM64
by mefyl 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

Hi, In my quest cross-compiling Boost.Context for ARM64, I encounter the following problem (using develop since ARM64 support is not in 1.57): $ ./bootstrap.sh --with-libraries=context [...] $ ./b2 -d2 -q toolset=clang architecture=arm abi=aapcs address-model=64 binary-format=mach-o [...] "clang++" -o "bin.v2/libs/system/build/clang-darwin-4.2.1/release/abi- aapcs/address-model-64/architecture-arm/threading-multi/libboost_system.dylib" -single_module -dynamiclib -install_name "libboost _system.dylib" "bin.v2/libs/system/build/clang-darwin-4.2.1/release/abi- aapcs/address-model-64/architecture-arm/threading-multi/error_code.o" Despite asking for arm, the "-arch arm64" I would expect is not passed to clang which thus compile to x86_64. However Boost.Context DOES understand I'm targeting arm since it picks the right ASM file: "clang++" -x assembler-with-cpp -O3 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline - Wall -fPIC -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_CHRONO_DYN_LINK=1 - DBOOST_CONTEXT_DYN_LINK=1 -DBOOST_CONTEXT_SOURCE -DBOOST_SYSTEM_DYN_LINK=1 - DBOOST_SYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED -DBOOST_THREAD_BUILD_DLL=1 -DBOOST_THREAD_POSIX - DBOOST_THREAD_USE_DLL=1 -DNDEBUG -I"." -c -o "bin.v2/libs/context/build/clang- darwin-4.2.1/release/abi-aapcs/address-model-64/architecture-arm/threading- multi/asm/make_arm64_aapcs_macho_gas.o" "libs/context/src/asm/make_arm64_aapcs_macho_gas.S" Which yields assembly errors of course since "-arch arm64" is not passed. Other sources seem to manage to build Boost for ARM64 using darwin toolset forcing clang as the compiler and passing many additional options, but their setup fails to build Boost.Context since it either picks the wrong ASM file, either complains the platform is not supported. Thanks in advance ! -- Quentin "mefyl" Hocquet CTO @ infinit.io

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Ambiguous overload for boost::blank when using optional & variant
by Berteun Damman 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

Hi, I'm using boost 1.57 after upgrading from 1.50, and the following innocuous looking program does not compile with either GCC (4.9) or Clang (3.5); tested both on Mac & Linux: #include <boost/optional.hpp> // This header triggers the problem #include <boost/variant.hpp> int main() { boost::variant<boost::blank> a, b; swap(a,b); // a.swap(b) does not make a difference } Both GCC and Clang give the same error: /opt/local/include/boost/variant/detail/move.hpp:60:5: error: call to 'swap' is ambiguous swap(lhs, rhs); [....] /opt/local/include/boost/core/swap.hpp:54:8: note: candidate function [with T1 = boost::blank, T2 = boost::blank] void swap(T1& left, T2& right) ^ /opt/local/include/boost/variant/detail/move.hpp:44:13: note: candidate function [with T1 = boost::blank, T2 =boost::blank] inline void swap(T1& lhs, T2& rhs) In this case one could remove the Optional header, but in a larger project this is of course not a solution; a better solution seems to add an overload for swap taking two boost blanks. I feel this is a bug in Boost, can someone confirm and tell me where I should file the bug request? Finally I noticed due to the above error messages that boost::variant will never use variadic templates when you use Clang. For GCC it uses them (in C++11 mode), but for Clang it refuses. Why is this? Thanks, -Berteun

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