June 2012 - Boost - lists.boost.org

[multi_index] Move Semantics
by Mark Snelling 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Hi, I've been a user of Boost.MultiIndex for a number of years and think it's a great library. Is there any firm plan to add move semantics? It's been noted under "Future Work" in the docs since Boost 1.32. Regards, Mark

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[fixed_point] Request for interest in a binary fixed point library
by Vicente J. Botet Escriba 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

Hi, the recent discussion on the MultiplePrecission Arithmetic library has show that some people has its ow fixed point library. Is there an interest in a Boost library having as base http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3352.html? I have started a prototype http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/fixed_point (there is no doc yet but the basic goal is quite close to the N3352 C++ proposal). This prototype should allow you to play a little bit with. If yes, what would you like to be changed, added or improved in n3352? Next follows some design decisions that IMO need to be decided before hand. * Should integers and reals be represented by separated classes? * Should signed and unsigned be represented by separated classes? * Should the library use a specific representation for signed numbers (separated sign, 2-complement? Let the user choose? * Should the library provide arbitrary range and resolution and allocators? * Should the library be open to overflow and rounding or just implement some of the possible policies? and in this case which ones? * Should fixed_point be convertible to/from integer/float/double? * Could the result of an arithmetic operation have more range and resolution than his arguments? * Is there a need for a specific I/O? * is there a need for radix other than 2 (binary)? * Should the library implement the basic functions, or should it imperatively implement the C++11 math functions? Could a first version just forward to the c++11 math functions? * Should the library support just one of the know ways to name a fixed-point, a U(a,b), nQm, ...? Provide some ways to move from one to another? * Could expect the same/better performances respect to hand written code? * What should be the size used by a fixed_point instance? _fast? _least? Should the user be able to decide which approach is better for his needs? * Which should be the namespace? boost? boost/fixed_point? boost/binary_fixed_point? boost/bfp? ... * others you can think of. Please, replay if you are interested, have some experience in the domain, good ideas, .. Best regards, Vicente

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[parameter] std proposal
by Lorenzo Caminiti 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Hello all, Is there a C++ standard proposal for named parameter addition? I am looking for an "N-paper" for named parameters similar to N2081 for concepts, or N1962 for contracts. Thank you. -- Sent from my mobile device Lorenzo

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[#pragma once]
by Sid Sacek 18 Nov '12

18 Nov '12

I've worked with the MSVC, Sun and GCC compilers. Each one of them supports #pragma once. Is there any reason to wrap this pragma within #ifdefs? Are there any compilers out there today that don't support this #pragma? #if defined( _MSC_VER ) && ( _MSC_VER >= 1020 ) # pragma once #endif Could we change this coding pattern so that it no longer looks like MSVC is being selfish? -Sid Sacek

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[config] explicit call of operator templates / msvc bug workaround
by Stefan Strasser 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

Hi, is there already a macro in Boost.Config that allows you to insert the "template" keyword in the following code for those compilers that require it? struct functor{ template<class T> void operator()(); }; template<class F> void g(F f){ f.template operator()<int>(); //(1) works with GCC and comeau f.operator()<int>(); //(2) works with MSVC } this apparently only applies to operator calls. MSVC accepts both (1) and (2) for regular functions. (instantiating the operator template with an object of type T as argument, like mpl::for_each does, is not an option. I can't construct T.) thanks, Stefan

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[test] Trunk broken: What happened to test_exec_monitor?
by John Maddock 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Testing on Trunk is apparently broken as the test_exec_monitor target has been removed from Boost.Test Trunk as of revision #74642. A quick grep shows 22 Jamfiles and over 200 targets dependent upon this. Whats happened? John.

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[build] 1.49 unable to bootstrap boost
by yuri kilochek 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

Not sure if this goes here. On Windows 7, when I try to do bootstrap on a freshly unzipped boost 1.49 at the root directory, I get the following output: Building Boost.Build engine But that is as far as it gets before os terminates whatever it is doing with this (roughly translated from russian): **** STACK SIZE EXCEEDED **** **** WHILE PERFORMING RECURSION IN BATCH MODE **** Recursion depth=654, Stack usage=90 percent. **** BATCH PROCESSING ABORTED **** Is there a way to build boost bypassing this?

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[Variant] C++11 variadic template implementation
by Florian Goujeon 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hi Boosters, I'd like to know if anybody were working on a C++11 version (using variadic templates) of Boost.Variant. I currently use the 'classic' version in my project, but since I need more-than-20-type variants, the compilation take a lot of time (extending the number of types that variant can support forces you to disable the use of precompiled headers). Plus, I'll need to use 70 type variants (MPL lists are physically limited to 50 types). If nobody has started to implement such a version yet, I'd be pleased to contribute. I've written an implementation. It's incomplete and far from perfect, but it could (hopefully) be a viable working basis.

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[intrusive] patch to resolve compiler error for WinCE
by David Deakins 09 Sep '12

09 Sep '12

Hi Ion, I had a little bit of time to look into the compile error mentioned in ticket 6841 and determine a patch from detail/mpl.hpp that I think should resolve it. The patch is attached to that Trac ticket, although I could also just go ahead and apply it if you like. Thanks, -Dave

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[multiprecision] Some rvalue reference experiments (performance inhancements #1)
by John Maddock 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '12

Folks, I've started to work through some of the points that came up in the multiprecision review, starting with further rvalue reference support. The idea (due to Marc Glisse) was to add operator overloads that look something like: Number&& operator+(Number&&a, const Number& b) { return static_cast<Number&&>(a += b); } Using my Polynomial Horner evaluation scheme as an example the number of temporaries dropped as follows: Type # temporaries No expression templates, no rvalue refs 24 No expression templates, rvalue refs 1 Expression template 0 Which is pretty impressive, but not necessarily typical usage, so by way of "real world" tests, I compared the times taken to evaluate Boost.Math's Bessel function test cases to 50 decimal places: Library Time/s # Allocations MPFR/mpreal (no ET's or rvalue refs) 9.4 13226029 MPFR/mpfr_class (ET's) 6.3 3948316 MPFR/mp_number(ET's) 6.0 2683646 GMP/mp_number(no ET's) 5.2 4186977 GMP/mp_number(ET's) 5.0 2594441 As you can see the number of allocations required when using mp_number with ET's turned off is almost double that without, I guess this is because many statements are similar to: a = b op c; Where a temporary is still required when relying on rvalue refs, but not for expression templates. Having said that the times are getting much closer now.... John.

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