Compiler: gcc 3.2 and 3.2.2 I believe this is actually a bug in gcc, but I'm going to post it hopes that someone can help me. We have a handy little tool for generating enums with associated string conversion and stream insertion/extraction functions. When we upgraded to boost 1.30.0, lexical_cast'ing one of these enums to std::string started behaving incorrectly, rather than the name, it is giving me the integral value. It seems that the lexical_stream is being used. Unfortunately, my test case is working fine. The complete test case (including definition of ZAcquisition::PPG) is appended at the end. The code I am seeing failure with looks like: void foo(ZAcquisition::PPG::Type gt) { ... std::string str; str = boost::lexical_cast<std::string>(gt); std::cerr << "DEBUG, storing encode for PPG: " << str << ", aka " << gt << std::endl; ... } This outputs (for example): DEBUG, storing encode for PPG: 0, aka ONE I tried boost::lexical_cast<std::string, ZAcquisition::PPG::Type>(gt) as well. Anyone have any ideas? For now I'm going to back out to 1.29.0's lexical_cast. Thanks, Tom --------Complete Passing Test Case #include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp> #include <string> #include <cassert> #include <iostream> namespace ZAcquisition { namespace PPG { enum Type { ONE = 0, TWO, THREE, FOUR, INVALID = 100 }; Type stringToType(std::string const&); std::string typeToString(PPG::Type); const int size = 5; const Type values[size] = { ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, INVALID }; } } std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream&, ZAcquisition::PPG::Type); std::istream& operator>>(std::istream&, ZAcquisition::PPG::Type&); namespace { const char s_PPG_ONE[] = "ONE"; const char s_PPG_TWO[] = "TWO"; const char s_PPG_THREE[] = "THREE"; const char s_PPG_FOUR[] = "FOUR"; const char s_PPG_INVALID[] = "INVALID"; } std::string ZAcquisition::PPG::typeToString(ZAcquisition::PPG::Type type) { std::string ret("Invalid_PPG_type"); switch(type) { case PPG::ONE: ret = s_PPG_ONE; break; case PPG::TWO: ret = s_PPG_TWO; break; case PPG::THREE: ret = s_PPG_THREE; break; case PPG::FOUR: ret = s_PPG_FOUR; break; case PPG::INVALID: ret = s_PPG_INVALID; break; default: std::cerr << static_cast<int>(type) << " is not a valid PPG enumeration." << std::endl; } return ret; } ZAcquisition::PPG::Type ZAcquisition::PPG::stringToType(std::string const& str) { PPG::Type ret = PPG::ONE; if(0 == str.compare(s_PPG_TWO)) { ret = PPG::TWO; } else if(0 == str.compare(s_PPG_THREE)) { ret = PPG::THREE; } else if(0 == str.compare(s_PPG_FOUR)) { ret = PPG::FOUR; } else if(0 == str.compare(s_PPG_INVALID)) { ret = PPG::INVALID; } return ret; } std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& out, ZAcquisition::PPG::Type type) { return out << ZAcquisition::PPG::typeToString(type); } std::istream& operator>>(std::istream& in, ZAcquisition::PPG::Type& type) { std::string str; in >> str; type = ZAcquisition::PPG::stringToType(str); return in; } int main() { assert(std::string("ONE") == boost::lexical_cast<std::string>(ZAcquisition::PPG::ONE)); return 0; } ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: Information contained in this message and/or attachment(s) may contain confidential information of Zetec, Inc. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender by return email. -----------------------------------------------------------------------