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Runtime problem using signals in Visual Studio 2005
by Rusty Jones 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi, I just upgraded from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2005 and I am getting consistent crashes in runtime in the signals library. The problem always occurs when trying to call the signal. If I remove the call to a signal, I get a crash the next time that I try to call a signal. The crash occurs in the named_slot_map_iterator in the init_next_group function. The strange thing is that if I build a project from scratch in 2005 I don't experience the problem. I'm not sure if it has anything to do with my configuration, but this code worked in Visual Studio 2003. I'm getting the same problem in boost 1.33.1 and 1.34.0. Any ideas would be appreciated. Cheers, Rusty

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fatal error C1001 with visual studio 8, boost 1.34, BOOST_AUTO() macro
by Trigve Siver 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi all I'm using boost 1.34 with postgresql c++ binding (libpqxx). I've got this fatal error: fatal error C1001: An internal error has occurred in the compiler. (compiler file 'F:\SP\vctools\compiler\utc\src\P2\main.c[0x10C68EF3:0x00000008]', line 182) To work around this problem, try simplifying or changing the program near the locations listed above. Please choose the Technical Support command on the Visual C++ Help menu, or open the Technical Support help file for more information when compiling sources with BOOST_AUTO macro from boost/typeof library. The code that triggers this error is: --- pqxx::nontransaction T(*m_pSQLConnection, "GetCustomer"); BOOST_AUTO(rs, T.exec("some select...")); // pqxx::result rs = T.exec(""some select..."); --- pqxx is namespace for postgresql c++ binding. I have registered pqxx::result with BOOST_TYPEOF_REGISTER_TYPE(pqxx::result). It's strange because I have also registered pqxx::result::const_iterator with BOOST_TYPEOF_REGISTER_TYPE(pqxx::result::const_iterator) and when using auto with pqxx::result::const_iterator there isn't fatal error and everything is compiled fine --- for(BOOST_AUTO(it, rs.begin()); it != rs.end(); ++it) { ... } --- So it looks like there is some bug in VS compiler. Or anyone know where could be the problem? thanks Trigve ____________________________________________________________________________________Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/

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Boost 1.34 unit test linking problem
by Robert Caldecott 16 May '07

16 May '07

Just downloaded and built Boost 1.34 (MS Windows, VS2005). Everything works except those apps that use the Boost Unit Test framework - I get the following linker error: error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "class boost::unit_test::test_suite * __cdecl init_unit_test_suite(int,char * * const)" (?init_unit_test_suite@@YAPAVtest_suite@unit_test@boost@@HQAPAD@Z) referenced in function "void __cdecl boost::unit_test::framework::init(int,char * * const)" (?init@framework@unit_test@boost@@YAXHQAPAD@Z) Note that I am defining BOOST_AUTO_TEST_MAIN (and use BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE) so I don't have to supply my own init_unit_test_suite function. Any ideas how I can quickly get this working? The test notes haven't been updated for 1.34.

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[GIL] Reading a fax G4 tiff
by Josue Gomes 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi, I'm trying to use GIL to read a Group 4 TIFF file. Below is the output of tiffinfo for this file. With this code: gray8_image_t img; tiff_read_image("killer2-tiffg4.tif", img); I'm getting the following exception: class std::ios_base::failure: tiff_read_view: input view type is incompatible with the image type --------------------------------------- tiffinfo killer2-tiffg4.tig TIFF Directory at offset 0x8 (8) Subfile Type: multi-page document (2 = 0x2) Image Width: 1728 Image Length: 2292 Resolution: 204, 196 pixels/inch Bits/Sample: 1 Compression Scheme: CCITT Group 4 Photometric Interpretation: min-is-white FillOrder: msb-to-lsb Orientation: row 0 top, col 0 lhs Samples/Pixel: 1 Rows/Strip: 2292 Planar Configuration: single image plane Page Number: 0-0 Software: GPL Ghostscript 8.56 DateTime: 2007:05:04 14:17:27 Group 4 Options: (0 = 0x0) TIFF Directory at offset 0x225ce (140750) Subfile Type: multi-page document (2 = 0x2) Image Width: 1728 Image Length: 2292 Resolution: 204, 196 pixels/inch Bits/Sample: 1 Compression Scheme: CCITT Group 4 Photometric Interpretation: min-is-white FillOrder: msb-to-lsb Orientation: row 0 top, col 0 lhs Samples/Pixel: 1 Rows/Strip: 2292 Planar Configuration: single image plane Page Number: 1-0 Software: GPL Ghostscript 8.56 DateTime: 2007:05:04 14:17:29 Group 4 Options: (0 = 0x0) --------------------------------------- Ideas? regards, josuegomes at gmail dot com

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Boost 1.34.0 Released
by Thomas Witt 16 May '07

16 May '07

Boost 1.34.0, the latest version of peer-reviewed, portable C++ libraries, has been released. This release brings five new libraries and extensive updates to existing libraries. http://www.boost.org New Libraries * Foreach Library: BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler. * Statechart Library: Arbitrarily complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber. * TR1 Library: An implementation of the C++ Technical Report on Standard Library Extensions, from John Maddock. This library does not itself implement the TR1 components, rather it's a thin wrapper that will include your standard library's TR1 implementation (if it has one), otherwise it will include the Boost Library equivalents, and import them into namespace std::tr1. Highlights include: Reference Wrappers, Smart Pointers, result_of, Function Object Binders, Polymorphic function wrappers, Type Traits, Random Number Generators and Distributions, Tuples, Fixed Size Array, Hash Function Objects, Regular Expressions and Complex Number Additional Algorithms. * Typeof Library: Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt. * Xpressive Library: Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates, and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler. Updated Libraries * Assign Library: o Support for ptr_map<key,T> via the new function ptr_map_insert() o Support for initialization of Pointer Containers when the containers hold pointers to an abstract base class. * Date_time library: o Support for new US/Canada timezone rules and other bug fixes. See Change History for details. * Filesystem Library: Major upgrade in preparation for submission to the C++ Standards Committee for TR2. Changes include: o Internationalization, provided by class templates basic_path, basic_filesystem_error, basic_directory_iterator and basic_directory_entry. o Simplification of the path interface by eliminating special constructors to identify native formats. o Rationalization of predicate function design, including the addition of several new functions. o Clearer specification by reference to POSIX, the ISO/ IEEE Single Unix Standard, with provisions for Windows and other operating systems. o Preservation of existing user code whenever possible. o More efficient directory iteration. o Addition of a recursive directory iterator. * Function Library: Boost.Function now implements a small buffer optimization, which can drastically improve the performance when copying or constructing Boost.Function objects storing small function objects. For instance, bind(&X:foo, &x, _1, _2) requires no heap allocation when placed into a Boost.Function object. * Functional/Hash Library o Use declarations for standard classes, so that the library doesn't need to include all of their headers o Deprecated the <boost/functional/hash/*.hpp> headers. o Add support for the BOOST_HASH_NO_EXTENSIONS macro, which disables the extensions to TR1 o Minor improvements to the hash functions for floating point numbers. * Graph Library: o edmonds_maximum_cardinality_matching, from Aaron Windsor. o lengauer_tarjan_dominator_tree, from JongSoo Park. o compressed_sparse_row_graph, from Jeremiah Willcock and Douglas Gregor of Indiana University. o sorted_erdos_renyi_iterator, from Jeremiah Willcock of Indiana University. o biconnected_components now supports a visitor and named parameters, from Janusz Piwowarski. o adjacency_matrix now models the Bidirectional Graph concept. o dijkstra_shortest_paths now calls vis.initialize_vertex for each vertex during initialization. o Note: the name of the compiled library for the GraphViz reader has changed to boost_graph (from bgl-viz) to match Boost conventions. o See the complete revision history for more information. * MultiArray Library: Boost.MultiArray now by default provides range-checking for operator[]. Range checking can be disabled by defining the macro BOOST_DISABLE_ASSERTS before including multi_array.hpp. A bug in multi_array::resize() related to storage orders was fixed. * Multi-index Containers Library: o New random access indices. o Non key-based indices feature new rearrange facilities. o This version also includes a number of optimizations and usage improvements. For a complete list of changes, see the library release notes. * Optional Library: o boost::none_t and boost::none now added to Optional's documentation o Relational operators now directly support arguments of type 'T' and 'none_t' o operator->() now also works with reference types. o Helper functions make_optional(val), make_optional (cond,val) and get_optional_value_or(opt,alternative_value) added. o Constructor taking a boolean condition (as well as a value) added. o Member function get_value_or(alternative_value) added. o Incompatbility bug with mpl::apply<> fixed. o Converting assignment bug with uninitialized lvalues fixed. * Parameter Library: o Every ArgumentPack is now a valid MPL Forward Sequence. o Support for unnamed arguments (those whose keyword is deduced from their types) is added. o Support for named and unnamed template arguments is added. o New overload generation macros solve the forwarding problem directly. o See also the Python library changes, below. * Pointer Container Library: o Support for serialization via Boost.Serialization. o Exceptions can be disabled by defining the macro BOOST_PTR_CONTAINER_NO_EXCEPTIONS before including any header. This macro is defined by default if BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS is defined. o Additional std::auto_ptr<T> overloads added s.t. one can also pass std::auto_ptr<T> instead of only T* arguments to member functions. o transfer() now has weaker requirements s.t. one can transfer objects from ptr_container<Derived> to ptr_container<Base>, * Python Library: o Boost.Python now automatically appends C++ signatures to docstrings. The new docstring_options.hpp header is available to control the content of docstrings. o stl_input_iterator, for turning a Python iterable object into an STL input iterator, from Eric Niebler. o Support for void* conversions is added. o Integrated support for wrapping C++ functions built with the parameter library; keyword names are automatically known to docsstrings. o Enhancements to the API for better embedding support (boost::python::import(), boost::python::exec() and boost::python::exec_file()). * Signals Library: More improvements to signal invocation performance from Robert Zeh. * Smart Pointers Library: o Allocator support as proposed in N1851 (162 Kb PDF). o pointer_cast and pointer_to_other utilities to allow pointer-independent code, from Ion Gaztanaga. * String Algorithm Library: o lexicographical_compare o join o New comparison predicates is_less, is_not_greater. o Negative indexes support (like Perl) in various algorihtms (*_head/tail, *_nth). * Wave Library: o Wave now correctly recognizes pp-number tokens as mandated by the C++ Standard, which are converted to C++ tokens right before they are returned from the library. o Several new preprocessing hooks have been added. For a complete description please refer to the related documentation page: The Context Policy. o Shared library (dll) support has been added for the generated Wave libraries. o The overall error handling has been improved. It is now possible to recover and continue after an error or a warning was issued. o Support for optional comment and/or full whitespace preservation in the generated output stream has been added. o The Wave library now performs automatic include guard detection to avoid accessing header files more than once, if appropriate. o Full interactive mode has been added to the Wave tool. Now the Wave tool can be used just like Python or Perl for instance to interactively try out your BOOST_PP macros. Additionally it is now possible to load and save the current state of an interactive session (macro tables et.al.). o The overall performance has been improved by upto 40-60%, depending on the concrete files to process. o Support for new pragmas has been added allowing to control certain library features from inside the preprocessed sources (partial output redirection, control of generated whitespace and #line directives). o Optional support for #pragma message "..." has been added. o This version also includes a number of bug fixes and usage improvements. For a complete list of changes, see the libraries change log. Supported Compilers Boost is tested on a wide range of compilers and platforms. Since Boost libraries rely on modern C++ features not available in all compilers, not all Boost libraries will work with every compiler. The following compilers and platforms have been extensively tested with Boost, although many other compilers and platforms will work as well. For more information, see the regression test results. * Apple GCC 4.0.1 on Mac OS X. * Borland C++ 5.8.2 on Windows. * GNU C++ o 3.2.x., 3.3.x, 3.4.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x on Linux o 4.1.x on Solaris o 3.4.x on Windows * HP aC++ A.06.14. * Intel C++ 9.1 on Windows, 9.0 on Linux. * Metrowerks CodeWarrior 9.4 on Windows. * Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (sp5, with and without STLport), 7.0, 7.1, 8.0. Note: Boost does not support the non-standard "Safe" C++ Library shipping with Visual C++ 8.0, which may result in many spurious warnings from Boost headers and other standards-conforming C++ code. To suppress these warnings, define the macro _SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE. * Sun Studio 11 on Solaris. Acknowledgements Thomas Witt managed this release. A great number of people contributed their time and expertise to make this release possible. Special thanks go to Vladimir Prus for making Boost.Build version 2 a reality, David Abrahams for authoring a new Getting Started guide, Rene Rivera for general build and installation support and Greg D. for answering countless questions. -- Thomas Witt witt(a)acm.org

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[1.34.0] Another compile time warning when building Boost using MSVC 7.1
by Jurko Gospodnetić 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi. Here's another warning we got when attempting to compile Boost 1.34 using MSVC 7.1.: libs\regex\src\..\src\cregex.cpp(563) : warning C4309: 'static_cast' : truncation of constant value Hope it helps... Best regards, Jurko Gospodnetić

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[1.34.0] Compiler warnings building Boost using VS 7.1.
by Jurko Gospodnetić 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi all. Here are some compiler warnings received when building Boost 1.34.0 using Visual Studio .NET 7.1. libs\program_options\src\cmdline.cpp(294) : warning C4800: 'int' : forcing value to bool 'true' or 'false' (performance warning) libs\program_options\src\cmdline.cpp(465) : warning C4800: 'int' : forcing value to bool 'true' or 'false' (performance warning) D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\include\xstring(151) : warning C4506: no definition for inline function 'size_t std:: char_traits<_Elem>::length(const _Elem *)' with [ _Elem=unsigned short ] Hope they help... Best regards, Jurko Gospodnetić

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problems on asio test cases with latest release of boost
by Yunior Peralta González 16 May '07

16 May '07

I installed the latest version of boost (2007-05-11) in Debian perfectly, and when I installed asio with it and typed make check, 26 test cases failed of 42 total. Someone know how to solve this? Or perhaps asio is not compatible with this release of boost?

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[asio] Multiple listeners on different ports?
by Sohail Somani 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi, My application needs to listen on one port for a certain service and another for another service. Service A is a registration-type service and service B is a typical client-server response service. I need to be able to handle concurrent connections on both ports. I would also like to use asio streams rather than the async read/write operations (its just easier!). What I had thought of was spawning two threads for the two services. My questions are: * Is it possible to use streams with concurrent connections? * Would asio be unhappy if I used the above "design"? * Is there a better suggestion/example I can look at? Thanks, Sohail

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[1.34.0] VC8 Express Compilation
by Ovanes Markarian 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi all! I have a question, does someone know how the build script finds out where the Platform SDK is installed? Visual C++ Express Edition does not come bundled with a platform SDK, so it must be installed separately (MS setup does not offer to install it under Visual C++ dir) and in my case I get some errors when compiling the threading library. Should I explicitly specify include directories for the Platform SDK in the bjam command line? Many thanks, Ovanes

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