July 2008 - Boost - lists.boost.org

[asio] SSL documentation
by Michael Marcin 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

The ASIO documentation leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to its SSL support. All the SSL related classes have 1 line of meaningless documentation in the reference section. There is 1 SSL related example with no comments in it. There is no mention of SSL in the Tutorial or Design sections. Has anyone written some documentation, a blog, or even a newsgroup post about the SSL portion of ASIO? Thanks, Michael Marcin

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[iochain] Overloaded >> and << operators?
by Robert Dailey 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Hi, Reading through the documentation for the Boost.Iochain library, I do not see that any default >> and << operators have been provided. I would expect to be able to use these to stream data out of a stream and into a stream, respectively. An example of the >> operator would be below: template< typename t_type > source& operator>> ( source& stream, t_type& data ) { stream.read( data ); return stream; }

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[1.36.0] Beta plans
by Beman Dawes 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

According to the schedule, a 1.36.0 beta release is due today. I'm going to delay the beta because there are still too many release regression test failures. See http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/release/developer/summary.html. Developers with release test failures need to redouble efforts to clear those failures. I'll start pester individuals where there doesn't seem to be any movement. The good news is that the number of failures is dropping fairly quickly as backed up merges for several important libraries takes effect, so I don't expect the delay to last more than a few days. Thanks, --Beman

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Boost with Intel/VS
by Adam Black 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Am trying to use boost::circular_buffer. I am using the Intel Compiler v10.1 and am building via VS 2008. Read as the Intel Compiler is bolted up to VS. I am getting the following error: ..\boost_1_35_0\boost/mpl/aux_/integral_wrapper.hpp(80): error: expected an operator 1> operator AUX_WRAPPER_VALUE_TYPE() const { return static_cast<AUX_WRAPPER_VALUE_TYPE>(this->value); } 1> ^ 1> 1>..\boost_1_35_0\boost/mpl/aux_/integral_wrapper.hpp(80): error: identifier "L" is undefined 1> operator AUX_WRAPPER_VALUE_TYPE() const { return static_cast<AUX_WRAPPER_VALUE_TYPE>(this->value); } This is my first foray into boost. I have tried using the Windows install of boost as well as manually changing BOOST_COMPILER_CONFIG "boost/config/compiler/intel.hpp" in boost/config/user.hpp From what I've gleaned thus far that should have solved my issue. But it hasn't. I'm at a loss and as time is short I am going to throw this out there for any tips or suggestions. Thank you.

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Separate Boost newsgroups for individual Boost libraries
by Edward Diener 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

I would like to suggest that Boost have separate NGs for each individual library. I also think, for each individual library, a separate user and developer NG should exist. While this will lead to many more NGs, it will make it much easier for users/developers to have concerns addressed for a particular Boost library, and to have the implementor of that library address those concerns. Also of course it will make it easier for people interested, or working with, a particular Boost library, to go to the appropriate NG to read about any issues brought up regarding that library. This is especially important as more Boost library are developed. If a post deals with issues that can not constrained to a single library, it can go to the current 'user' or 'devel' NG as appropriate.

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[smart_ptr> C++0x unique_ptr ?
by Loïc Joly 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Hello, I was wondering whether there was any plan to implement a unique_ptr in boost, that would replace scoped_ptr, and would default to scoped_ptr on compilers lacking move semantic? Best regards, -- Loïc

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Fwd: [GIL] Point concept
by Felipe Magno de Almeida 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Felipe Magno de Almeida <felipe.m.almeida(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:28 AM Subject: [GIL] Point concept To: boost-users(a)lists.boost.org Hi, PointNDConcept is defined as having axis_value member functions. But the GIL code in the boost trunk doesn't comply with this requirement. A free axis_value function is just useless, because it can't be found by ADL when template parameters are passed explicitly. Also, member template axis doesn't model Metafunction. Am I missing something? Regards, -- Felipe Magno de Almeida -- Felipe Magno de Almeida

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[1.36.0] Libraries with unmerged changed - more accurate results.
by Beman Dawes 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Below is a more accurate list of headers and libraries whose header files appear to differ between the trunk and branches/release. The most likely causes are: * Changes that should be merged into branches/release for 1.36.0. If that is the case, developers need to merge these changes right away! * Work in process that should *not* be merged into branches/release for 1.36.0. Please let me know that that is the case so I can stop worrying:-) * Although it seems to be working much better, there still may be issues with the script used to generate the report. Please let me know so the script can be improved. Thanks, --Beman Headers: any.hpp concept_check.hpp enable_shared_from_this.hpp intrusive_ptr.hpp lexical_cast.hpp make_shared.hpp memory_order.hpp operators.hpp pointer_cast.hpp pointer_to_other.hpp rational.hpp scoped_array.hpp scoped_ptr.hpp shared_ptr.hpp smart_cast.hpp static_assert.hpp static_warning.hpp swap.hpp tokenizer.hpp weak_ptr.hpp Libraries: asio bimap circular_buffer config date_time detail filesystem function function_types graph interprocess intrusive iostreams iterator math mpl numeric optional parameter pool program_options property_tree python regex serialization signals spirit statechart system test tr1 type_traits units utility

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[any] small buffer optimizations?
by Thorsten Ottosen 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

Hi, As eplained in http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/dynamic_typing.aspx boost::any is not exactly optimal w.r.t. efficiency. Diggins implementation avoid allocation for objects smaller or equal to sizeof(void*). Personally I think this is too small a buffer; Boost.Function uses at least two words; I think it might be worth to go for 3 words. Would anyone be interested in implementing this? best regards -Thorsten

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Help with Access Violation in simple serialization
by Tiago da Silva 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

Hi there, I am having some serious problems when trying to instantiate either a boost::archive::xml_oarchive or a boost::archive::text_oarchive: everytime I receive an "Unhandled exception at XXX (msvcr90d.dll) in XXX : Access violation writing location" I have simplified a test case up to this: structure I want to save (in whatever.h): typedef struct s_pt { int x; int y; bool operator< (const struct s_pt &spt2) const { return (x < spt2.x) && (y < spt2.y); } bool operator== (const struct s_pt &spt2) const { return (x == spt2.x) && (y == spt2.y); } template<class Archive> // turns into a serializable component void serialize(Archive &ar, const unsigned int version) { using boost::serialization::make_nvp; ar & make_nvp("x", x); ar & make_nvp("y", y); } } POINT2D; saving routine in main.cpp std::ofstream ofs("savedProject.imag3d"); boost::archive::xml_oarchive oa(ofs); const structs::POINT2D p = {111, 222}; oa << boost::serialization::make_nvp("p2d", p); but I get this error in boost::archive::xml_oarchive oa(ofs); I have tried already both xml_oarchive and text_oarchive... but the demo.cpp provided by http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/libs/serialization/doc/index.html involving the bus routes works!!! what am I doing wrong??? I use Visual Studio 2008. Thanks in advance, Tiago

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