June 2015 - Boost - lists.boost.org

Test Runner Update to vc14.0 - CTP 6
by Tom Kent 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

Just a heads up, I have just updated the test runner teeks99-08f-win2012R2-64on64 from vc14.0 - CTP 4 to vc14.0 - CTP 6. The change should show up in the next run of that runner in a few hours. I think some people were waiting to see if MS was fixing some things, so I thought I'd send a message letting people know these results would be available. Tom

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Serializing shared_ptr fails on .template
by Jared McIntyre 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

I've run into an issue where VS 2013, and likely earlier versions, fail to serialize a shared_ptr because Visual Studio is choking on the use of ar.template get_helper in load() to remove ambiguity. The issue appears to replicate previous bug report here: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10727 That report didn't post an example, so instead of adding a new bug, I've posted example code to that existing report. VS 2013 Boost 1.57 Jared McIntyre

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[variant] Maintainer
by Antony Polukhin 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

Hi, I've been keeping an eye on Boost.Varinat for a few years. Since then multiple issues were closed; support for rvalues and variadic templates was added; other good things happened. Could I be promoted to an official maintainer of Variant? This will help me to react on issues faster (email notifications) which is essential. I'm also planning to add missing features from N4450 without affecting the current never-empty behaviour and without breaking existing code. -- Best regards, Antony Polukhin

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Boost.DLL formal review
by Vladimir Prus 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

The formal review of Boost.DLL library by Antony Polukhin starts today. Boost.DLL is a C++98 library for comfortable work with DLL and DSO. Library provides a portable across platforms way to: - load libraries at runtime - import and export any native functions and variables - make alias names for C++ mangled functions and symbols - query libraries/objects and executables for sections and exported symbols - self loading and self querying - getting program and module location by exported symbol The documentation can be found at: http://apolukhin.github.io/Boost.DLL/index.html and the source can be obtained at: https://github.com/apolukhin/Boost.DLL Please post your reviews on the mailing list and if possible, answer the following questions: - Should the library be accepted? - How useful is it? - What's your evaluation of - Design - Implementation - Documentations - Tests - How much effort did you put into your evaluation? - Did you attempt to use the library? On what systems and compilers? This formal review has a couple of adjustments in place: - It will run for two calendar weeks, not for 10 days, as a number of people said 10 days is too little. That said, please try to submit a review during first week, so that necessary discussion can happen conveniently. - The documentation site has Google Analytics enabled, which will allow us to see which pages and navigation paths are most useful for reviewers. No personally identifiable information will be collected. I will post the data after the review is over. Thanks, Volodya

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Problem cross-compiling boost.context for Raspberry Pi (2)
by Biddiscombe, John A. 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Hello list, I am able to compile the full set of boost libraries on the Raspberry Pi, and I get all the libraries successfully built, including context and coroutine which I need. However, when I cross compile on an Ubuntu virtual machine setup for the job, all the libraries except context/coroutine are built. The problem seems to be that when cross compiling, the file "unsupported.cpp" is being pulled in (here is a verbose output showing flag I'm using) "/home/biddisco/pi/tools/arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian-x64/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -pthread -fPIC -D__arm__ -std=c++11 -mcpu=cortex-a7 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard -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/gcc-arm/release/threading-multi/unsupported.o" "libs/context/src/unsupported.cpp" which emanates from the jamfile boost_1_58_0/libs/context/build/Jamfile.v2 where the following alias asm_context_sources : unsupported.cpp ; is in a section marked #COMBINED Now, when I build on the pi itself, this file is not being added to the build, so it seems to me that during the bootstrap phase on the pi, different flags are being used which trigger the correct behaviour of bjam my user-config.jam looks like this using gcc : : /home/biddisco/pi/tools/arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian-x64/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ : <compile-flags>-D__arm__ -mcpu=cortex-a7 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard ; (NB. I added -D__arm__ to see if it helps, but it does not make a difference without it). I have no knowledge of how bjam / boost.build do their things, so I do not know what to try next. It seems that I need to bootstrap the build using the flags for the pi, but built for the host so that it can generate the correct makefiles and this looks like where the problem is arising. the build process seems good apart from this wrinkle The bootstrap command I'm using is ./bootstrap.sh --with-toolset=gcc and the build appears sensible when I use ./b2 cxxflags="-D__arm__ -std=c++11 -mcpu=cortex-a7 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard" --layout=versioned threading=multi link=shared variant=release -j8 Performing configuration checks - 32-bit : yes - arm : yes .... etc etc Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? (Note : With another project which depends on libpthread, I had to copy libpthread from the pi to the host and force the linker to use the pthread lib from the pi and not the host one, does bjam do something internally which might require a trick like this? - note2 - the binaries generated via this process run without error) Many thanks JB -- John Biddiscombe, email:biddisco @.at.@ cscs.ch http://www.cscs.ch/ CSCS, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre | Tel: +41 (91) 610.82.07 Via Trevano 131, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland | Fax: +41 (91) 610.82.82

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[predef] Using predef-check on 'develop' problem
by Edward Diener 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

In a jam file I have for a run test a predef-check which looks like: run test_variadic_macro.cpp : : : [ predef-check "BOOST_COMP_GNUC >= 4.3" "BOOST_OS_QNX == 0" : : <cxxflags>-std=c++0x ] ; When running on QNX with the gcc version greater than 4.3 I would expect that -std=c++0x would not be added as a C++ compile parameter to the run. Yet it is being added to the run. Another test confirms that BOOST_OS_QNX is indeed being set to a non-zero value. Is there a bug in predef-check ? Am I using it incorrectly ?

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[next gen futures] Lightweight monad ready for inspection
by Niall Douglas 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

Some may remember the thread starting from http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/next-gen-future-promise-What-to-cal l-the-monadic-return-type-td4676039.html and that I would firstly prepare an optimally lightweight monad<T> for review here before going on to base a next-gen lightweight future-promise on that monad<T>. I didn't expect it would take nearly four weeks to get there, but writing STL quality C++ with full conformance test suite is amazingly labourious. Anyway you can now view the design and tell me what you think. A quick overview of the design: This monad can hold a fixed variant list of empty, a type R, a lightweight error_type or a heavier exception_type at a space cost of max(20, sizeof(R)+4). Features: * Very lightweight on build times and run times up to the point of zero execution cost and just a four byte space overhead. Requires min clang 3.2, GCC 4.7 or VS2015. A quick sample of runtime overhead, min to max opcodes generated by GCC 5.1: 1 opcodes <= Value transport <= 113 opcodes 8 opcodes <= Error transport <= 119 opcodes 22 opcodes <= Exception transport <= 214 opcodes 4 opcodes <= then() <= 154 opcodes 5 opcodes <= bind() <= 44 opcodes * Just enough monad, nothing more, nothing fancy. Replicates the future API with a fair chunk of the Expected<T> API, so if you know how to use a future you already know how to use this. * Enables convenient all-noexcept mathematically verifiable close semantic design, so why bother with Rust anymore? :) * Can replace most uses of optional<T>. * Deep integration with lightweight future-promise (i.e. async monadic programming) also in this library. * Comprehensive unit testing and validation suite. * Mirrors noexcept of type R. * Type R can have no default constructor, move nor copy. * Works inside a STL container, and type R can be a STL container. * No comparison operations nor hashing is provided, deliberately to keep things simple. Documentation page: https://ci.nedprod.com/view/Boost%20Thread-Expected-Permit/job/Boost.S pinlock%20Test%20Linux%20GCC%204.8/doxygen/classboost_1_1spinlock_1_1l ightweight__futures_1_1monad.html Source code: https://github.com/ned14/boost.spinlock/blob/master/include/boost/spin lock/monad.hpp Online wandbox compiler: http://melpon.org/wandbox/permlink/cnZM5KRNpjErXrPH Any opinions or thoughts gratefully received, particularly if I have the exception safety semantics right (i.e. a throw during move or copy leaves the monad empty). Do you also like the polymorphic bind() and map() which does different things depending on the parameter type your callable takes? Do you like that by simply changing the callable's type to a rvalue reference you can move state, or is this being too clever? This monad will become the basis of lightweight future-promise which is essentially a "split monad" with the setter interface and getter interface potentially in different system threads. The then(), bind() and map() work as here but only are triggered at the point of the value being changed. This effectively makes the lightweight future a "lazy continued monad". That lightweight future-promise will then enter AFIO to replace its async_io_op type hopefully in time for the peer review this time next month. Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/

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[math][website] SVG graphics all missing?
by John Maddock 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

It looks like all the SVG graphics used by the Boost.Math docs are missing from the website - is this a release SNAFU? Thanks, John.

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[winapi] Major changes in develop
by Andrey Semashev 02 Jul '15

02 Jul '15

Hi, I've just merged a largely reworked version of Boost.WinAPI to develop. It fixes a few bugs and also changes the implementation for better conformance with the C++ standard. Hopefully, it should fix compilation issues with clang on Windows. Another significant change is that Boost.WinAPI targets Windows Vista and later by default. As before, it is possible to explicitly select another version to target by defining BOOST_USE_WINAPI_VERSION. For example, to build Boost for Windows XP one would invoke: b2 define=BOOST_USE_WINAPI_VERSION=0x0501 If anyone has problems with this change, please let me know.

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Fwd: [SORT] Parallel Algorithms
by Francisco José Tapia 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

Hi Steven I had been revising and testing spreadsort, and the results are impressive. I have prepared the benchmarks and include spreadsort. Now the numbers are extracted from a file generated with a random number generator. In a few days I will put all in a git repository for a easy access As I had seen, you use boost::sort for to invoke to spreadsort. If you use this name, which name use for to invoke introsort? I think a good idea can be call the algorithms by their name. If we do this we have the next algorithm list : - spreadsort - spreadsort_integer - spreadsort_float - spreadsort_string - introsort - parallel_introsort - smart_merge_sort - parallel_stable_sort - sample_sort I think it's a simple and easy to understand, because with the name sort, many people think about an algorithm as introsort ( general , not specific for several data types) and not stable. What's your opinion ?

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