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Boost regression notification (2005-08-22)
by Douglas Gregor 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Boost regression test failures ------------------------------ Report time: 2005-08-22T15:05:38Z This report lists all regression test failures on release platforms. Detailed report: http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-HEAD/developer/issues… 65 failures in 6 libraries: functional/hash (9) graph (9) parameter (4) python (22) serialization (20) wave (1) |functional/hash| books: vc-6_5 vc-6_5-stlport vc-7_0 point: borland-5_6_4 vc-6_5 vc-6_5-stlport vc-7_0 portable: vc-6_5 vc-6_5-stlport |graph| graphviz_test: gcc-3.2.3-linux gcc-3.3.6-linux gcc-3.4.4-linux gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4.0.1-linux mingw-3_4_2 vc-7_1 vc-7_1 vc-7_1 |parameter| basics: borland-5_6_4 macros: borland-5_6_4 sfinae: borland-5_6_4 unnamed: borland-5_6_4 |python| exec: cw-8_3 cw-9_4 gcc-2.95.3-linux gcc-2.95.3-stlport-4.6.2-linux gcc-3.2.3-linux gcc-3.3.6-linux gcc-3.3.6-linux gcc-3.4.4-linux gcc-3.4.4-linux gcc-3_4_3-sunos gcc-4.0.1-linux intel-win32-8_1 intel-win32-9_0 intel-win32-9_0 mingw-3_4_2 msvc vc-6_5 vc-6_5-stlport vc-7_0 vc-7_1 vc-7_1 vc-7_1 |serialization| test_class_info_load_binary_archive: cw-9_5-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos test_class_info_load_binary_archive_dll: cw-9_5-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos test_class_info_load_text_archive: gcc-3_4_3-sunos test_class_info_load_text_archive_dll: gcc-3_4_3-sunos test_class_info_load_text_warchive: gcc-3_4_3-sunos test_class_info_load_text_warchive_dll: gcc-3_4_3-sunos test_class_info_load_xml_archive: cw-9_5-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos test_class_info_load_xml_archive_dll: cw-9_5-darwin gcc-3_4_3-sunos test_class_info_load_xml_warchive: gcc-3_4_3-sunos test_class_info_load_xml_warchive_dll: gcc-3_4_3-sunos test_const_save_fail1: msvc test_const_save_fail2: msvc test_const_save_fail3: msvc test_map_binary_archive_dll: msvc test_map_text_archive_dll: msvc test_map_text_warchive_dll: msvc |wave| testwave: gcc-3.3.6-linux

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Start separating mandatory source?
by Daryle Walker 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Since we just had a release, should be re-visit moving all the mandatory source code into a separate directory together? For the newbies, this means changing the BOOST_ROOT . libs .. date_time ... src .. graph ... src into something like BOOST_ROOT . src .. date_time .. graph Right now, using mandatory source files means scrambling into a lot of directories figuring out what to add. There is stuff like Boost-Build, but it doesn't work for everyone, and I feel that it's a "cute" overkill solution. No matter the plan there are some caveats: 1. Some platforms require some libraries to be put in separate DLLs. 2. You have to exclude the driver files from Boost-Test, since each includes a "main" function. (And if you actually are doing testing, then you know that you can include at most one driver file.) Besides the caveats, you can just dump all the mandatory source code into your IDE's project file (or make file) and don't worry Boost-Build. If some source needs to be in a DLL, then start a sub-project. (If you don't need a library at all, then exclude it from the project to save compile time. The linker will tell you, by choking, if you went too far.) -- Daryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie darylew AT hotmail DOT com

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Should we add two simple character-to-Unicode converters?
by Daryle Walker 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Nothing fancy, just something like: int_fast32_t char_to_Unicode( char c ); int_fast32_t wchar_to_Unicode( wchar_t c ); that converts a native character to a Unicode value. They would need a separate source file that contains #if blocks for each platform. Maybe they can start a namespace with "utf8_codecvt_facet"? -- Daryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie darylew AT hotmail DOT com

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interest in "policy_composite" library?
by Larry Evans 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Is there any interest in a "policy_composite" library which will have policies just as the proposed policy_ptr: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost-sandbox/boost-sandbox/boost/pol… library has policies? These composite policies might allow different allocation strategies for variant and possibly different CTOR arguments for tuple. It could also allow adding different methods, such as the get_base_ptr(void) as described here: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.std.c++/msg/27e41e693228c6c7?hl=en& which would of course satisfy (hopefully) that OP's request for a variant extension.

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Re: [boost] Should we add two simple character-to-Unicode converters?
by Graham 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

>From: Daryle Walker <darylew(a)hotmail.com> Dear Daryle, >I thought of these functions while considering how Wave process the various >phases of C++ translation (see section 2.1 of the standard). I wanted the >conversion to be one native-character to one code-point because that is how >Phase 1 implies it[1]. If you don't think that's right, maybe we should >file a defect with the Standard committee. Maybe I misunderstood you - you seem to be asking for code page conversion here not UTF conversion. Code page conversion is anything but simple and requires data conversion tables for many of the code pages. It is not very practical at the character level as you can see from the calls below, but would require conversion objects to be created that can then implement these functions. int_fast32_t char_to_Unicode(std::string locale, char c ); // very inefficient int_fast32_t wchar_to_Unicode(std::string locale, wchar_t c ); // very inefficient conv1250 = new convertor(std::string locale); // better convertor->char_to_Unicode(char c); >[1] In other words, any extended native character (i.e. not a character C++ >uses for parsing) must be mapped to one C++ Unicode name, which maps to a >single code-point. That depends on what you mean. For example <e><acute> can be one <e acute>, or two <e><acute> Unicode characters depending on how it is normalised. A character parser should understand this if it wants to present Unicode graphemes which are the default unit of parsing in unicode and which should be in any compliant native handler even if working with the local code page. I suggest you wait for the release of the unicode library, alternatively if you want to volunteer to write lots of code page conversion functions, and their data tables where necessary, please let us know. Yours, Graham

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Updated version history
by Daryle Walker 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

I added items for 1.11.1 and 1.11.0, which I found in e-mails in the Archives. Worse, 1.11.1 was just incidentally mentioned and was not a subject of an e-mail. Updated CVS and the web site (hopefully not frying the latter). -- Daryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie darylew AT hotmail DOT com

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[config] Why does BOOST_NO_INTEGRAL_INT64_T depend on BOOST_HAS_LONG_LONG?
by Markus Schöpflin 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Currently config/suffix.hpp contains the following code which seems pretty wrong to me: ---%<--- #if !defined(BOOST_HAS_LONG_LONG) && !defined(BOOST_NO_INTEGRAL_INT64_T) # define BOOST_NO_INTEGRAL_INT64_T #endif --->%--- AFAICT, the existence of a 64 bit integral type has nothing to do with support for long long types. On Tru64 for example, uint64_t is defined as unsigned long and there is no unsigned long long when the compiler operates in strict ansi mode. Shouldn't these lines just be removed? Markus

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build boost_1.33 on cygwin failed
by Bernd Martin Wollny 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hello, I am using cygwin on a Windows XP system. I can build boost 1_32.0 with no problems. If i Try to build boos_1.33 The build failed with the following error: ./bjam -sTools="gcc" --prefix=/usr stage Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled. Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information (and if you don't know what ICU is then you probably don't need it). unknown target type for <@boost!libs!test!build>libboost_prg_exec_monitor.dll The error doesn't depend on prefix. what is wrong ??? buy Bernd

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[type_traits] small workaround logic change
by Vladimir Prus 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hello, I suggest that the following patch be applied to type_traits/detail/cv_traits_impl.hpp: --- cv_traits_impl.hpp 22 Jun 2005 16:59:26 -0000 1.4 +++ cv_traits_impl.hpp 14 Jul 2005 06:49:40 -0000 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ // implementation helper: -#if !(BOOST_WORKAROUND(__GNUC__,== 3) && (__GNUC_MINOR__ <= 2)) +#if !(BOOST_WORKAROUND(__GNUC__,== 3) && BOOST_WORKAROUND(__GNUC_MINOR__, <= 2)) namespace boost { namespace detail { #else The reason is that later in the file, we have: #if BOOST_WORKAROUND(__GNUC__,== 3) && BOOST_WORKAROUND(__GNUC_MINOR__, <= 2) and first condition does not exactly match the second condition. Specifically, suppose __GNUC__ is set to 3 and __GNUC_MINOR__ is not set. The first condition will evaluate to ! (BOOST_WORKAROUND(__GNUC__, == 3) && (__GNUC_MINOR__ <= 2) = ! (1 && (0 <= 2)) = ! (1 && 1 ) = 0 The second condition in the file will evaluate to: BOOST_WORKAROUND(__GNUC__,== 3) && BOOST_WORKAROUND(__GNUC_MINOR__, <= 2) = 1 && 0 = 0 So, both conditions evaluate to the same value, while they are supposed to be mutually exclusive. The case where __GNUC_MINOR__ is not set is a pathological -- I've found it when playing with some C++ parser, but the patch should do no harm. Opinions? - Volodya

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Bug in boost::rational, no Boolean conversion; an operator template suggestion
by Daryle Walker 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

I'm writing a class template where the template parameter is a type that should represent real numbers. It started choking when using boost::rational when I needed Boolean conversion, e.g. template < typename T > void my_class<T>::my_func() { if ( this->s_ ) //... } Looking at boost::rational, I noticed that it does NOT have a Boolean conversion operator (i.e. an unspecified numeric/pointer type). Before anyone says that's proper, realize that boost::rational DOES have "operator not()" defined! This is a surprise to the typical C++ programmer. Either both should be defined, or neither. I think that boost::rational should add a Boolean conversion. (It's a quick fix, and it is critical, so it should be done for this release.) Incidentally, maybe we should define another helper template for <boost/operators.hpp>. If a type supports default construction and equality via "operator ==()", then a Boolean conversion and "operator not()" will be added. (It's up to the user to make sure the type is numeric and the default value is equivalent to zero.) -- Daryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie darylew AT hotmail DOT com

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