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Re: [boost] [locale] missing locale/info.hpp
by Stewart, Robert 20 Oct '11

20 Oct '11

markus.rauber(a)bluewin.ch wrote: > > in your documentation you mention the availability of info.hpp > (located in /boost/locale) I've just downloaded the > latest 1.47 release and there's no such "locale" subdirectory > and no info.hpp file containing a <locale> include statement. > > I'd like to use the language settings provided with this > header file. > Where can it be found? > Where can the corresponding library be found? Boost.Locale was accepted into Boost this past spring (see http://www.boost.org/community/review_schedule.html for details). It has not yet been made part of a release (as can be seen from http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/, which you can access from boost.org's Libraries link.) FYI: It is also helpful to include the library name in square brackets in your subject to ensure the library author/maintainer discovers it (see http://www.boost.org/community/policy.html#subject-line) Conventionally, the library name is rendered in lower case. I have done so in my reply, so Artyom may well have more details to offer you. _____ Rob Stewart robert.stewart(a)sig.com Software Engineer using std::disclaimer; Dev Tools & Components Susquehanna International Group, LLP http://www.sig.com ________________________________ IMPORTANT: The information contained in this email and/or its attachments is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by reply and immediately delete this message and all its attachments. Any review, use, reproduction, disclosure or dissemination of this message or any attachment by an unintended recipient is strictly prohibited. Neither this message nor any attachment is intended as or should be construed as an offer, solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell any security or other financial instrument. Neither the sender, his or her employer nor any of their respective affiliates makes any warranties as to the completeness or accuracy of any of the information contained herein or that this message or any of its attachments is free of viruses.

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RFC: A better shared_array
by Olaf van der Spek 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Hi, The current shared_array doesn't keep track of size. This greatly decreases it's usefulness. So I wrote a variant that does: http://pastebin.com/wkdLVqM1 Any interest in such a variant? Olaf

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How can I contribute?
by Andrzej Krzemienski 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Hi, I am not well familiar with Boost procedures, so I apologize if my question is silly. I found a bug (or a missing feature) in template boost::value_initialized. I found that a bug report and the proposed resolution are already there in BoostTrac: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5483. Is there a way I could help speed the process of getting it fixed up? Can people from outside commit changes to Boost trunk? Regards, &rzej

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Re: [boost] Interest in StaticVector - fixed capacity vector
by Nevin Liber 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

On 14 October 2011 05:32, Dave Abrahams <dave(a)boostpro.com> wrote: > Use-cases, please! I worked on a messaging system that created messages via serialization (that took iterators) and delivered them via UDP. Most messages were small (<100 bytes) with occasional messages 1K-2K in size. To give ourselves breathing room, we allowed messages up to, say, 32K, as it would be a non-trivial effort to implement splitting/reassembly of messages. > How could it ever be a "drop-in replacement for vector" For over a decade, the mental model for calling push_back, insert, resize, etc. is that it they have no preconditions to check. This is true *for every standard container* (which supports the corresponding operation, of course). You want to *silently* break that consistency. That will lead to buffer overrun bugs, which we know are hard to debug and I'm not saying we don't need the unchecked functionality. I'm saying it should never be spelled p-u-s-h-_-b-a-c-k, i-n-s-e-r-t, r-e-s-i-z-e, etc. (which is one of the reasons I'm arguing against making it policy based). I'm strongly opposed to any solution that uses the same function signatures as the standard containers that isn't as safe and easy to call as the ones in the standard containers. -- Nevin ":-)" Liber <mailto:nevin@eviloverlord.com> (847) 691-1404

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[context] interface to query remaining stack space
by Charlls Quarra 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Hi All, is there a easy way to query the remaining stack space in a given context? assuming the context is running, i can check the address of a stack dummy variable, but i don't see a way to query the top address of the stack. One could do this by storing that top address before creating the context, but i was wondering if there is already an interface that i'm missing? thanks

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Interest in StaticVector - fixed capacity vector
by Andrew Hundt 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Andrew Hundt <athundt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I've implemented a small companion class to boost.array that functions > like a stack allocated vector with fixed capacity. The motivation for this > class came when I was using boost.array in an interprocess library, when I > realized that I actually desired an adjustable size boost.array, without the > complexity of the vector class in the interprocess library. The result is > StaticVector, which is boost.array directly modified with a size in front of > the array, and added facilities to match std::vector. > > The Implementation is available at: > https://github.com/ahundt/Boost.StaticVector > > Sample Code: > StaticVector<std::size_t,3> three; > three.push_back(5); > three.push_back(2); // size: 2 capacity: 3 > three.push_back(3); > > three.push_back(1); // throws std::out_of_range exception indicating the > capacity has been exceeded > > So here is the big question: > Is there any interest in the class? > > Cheers! > Andrew Hundt > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Nevin Liber <nevin(a)eviloverlord.com> wrote: > On 15 August 2011 16:05, Andrew Hundt <athundt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Good point. I've modified elems to be a char array, and I now > > reinterpret_cast to the class T as necessary. Elements should only be > > constructed when they are added now. > > > > What are you doing about alignment? Take a look at Synyhesizing Types with > Specific Alignments in the Type Traits library for a start. > -- > Nevin ":-)" Liber <mailto:nevin@eviloverlord.com> (847) 691-1404 > Phil Endecott wrote: > In the case of StativVector<char,N> where N<256, you should consider using > uint8_t to store the size - and similar variations. Boost.Integer makes it > possible to select a suitable type. Sorry for the duplicate email, but my other email seemed to get lost in the shuffle. I know its been a while since I sent my first emails regarding StaticVector, but I have fixed some of the issues others pointed out. - I added a benchmark based on a move benchmark found on C++Next, that shows StaticVector outperforming vector by about 30%, which seems reasonable since there is no dynamic allocation. - I believe I've resolved the StaticVector alignment using type_traits' aligned_storage, as suggested by Nevin Liber. - I've also added the use of Boost.Integer to select the smallest possible type to track the size of the vector given its capacity, as suggested by Phil Endecott. The Implementation is available at: https://github.com/ahundt/Boost.StaticVector Anyone still have additional thoughts or interest in this? Cheers! Andrew Hundt

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range: strided unused parameter 'first' [PATCH]
by Shaun Jackman 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Hi, When using boost::strided I get the following error: boost/range/adaptor/strided.hpp:52: error: unused parameter 'first' The following patch should fix this error. Cheers, Shaun --- boost/range/adaptor/strided.hpp (revision 75052) +++ boost/range/adaptor/strided.hpp (working copy) @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ namespace boost { } - strided_iterator(base_iterator first, base_iterator it, base_iterator last, difference_type stride) + strided_iterator(base_iterator, base_iterator it, base_iterator last, difference_type stride) : super_t(it) , m_last(last) , m_stride(stride)

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[review] request date change for Local review
by Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

I'm manager for the review of Lorenzo Caminiti's Local library. After a brief discussion with Lorenzo and Greg Crosswhite (review manager assistant), we've decided it would be prudent to push the Local review back to November 10th - 20th (originally scheduled for October 24th - November 2nd), given its overlap with the Atomic review and it being likely that several possible review contributors could be tied up getting 1.48.0 shipped out during the original review time frame. Is it not too late to reschedule? It looks like Local is the last library scheduled for review, and I don't see any conflicts in the calendar. If this is problematic for anyone for any reason, please let me know. Thanks, - Jeff

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[Review:Algorithms] - Review by Neil Groves
by Neil Groves 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

*Evaluation of the design.* The design is pleasingly consistent with other algorithms with the exception of clamp_range. The clamp_range function copies, which is inconsitent with the other Boost string algorithms that have the _copy suffix. The clamp_range feature would be better designed as a clamped range adaptor. *Evaluation of the implementation* Generally, the algorithms would benefit from concept checking. In particular the iterator traversals, and range concept requirements should be checked. The implementation of the functions in all.hpp and clamp.hpp are correctly implemented. The clamp function does not provide the usual guarantees about NaN values that most of the floating-point operations do. That is any one argument being NaN does not guarantee a NaN result. This is probably intended, if so a note should be made in the documentation.The argument types may benefit from using call_traits to optimally chose between constant reference and value types. It might be worth considering an assertion that p(lo,hi) is true in the clamp function. The mixing of differing integer types makes the search algorithms defective. The int type is signed, and typically <= the size of std::size_t yet these are mixed. The skip table uses ints, but std::size_t values are inserted. Certainly there should not be any c style casts. It would seem logical to use the boost::iterator_difference<Iterator>::type instead. Currently these algorithms are defective albeit under unusual conditions. There are numerous invocations of non-member functions that should use qualified calls to avoid accidental argument-dependent lookup. range_const_iterator<Rng> has been deprecated in favour of range_iterator<const Rng> The Range versions of the functions should provide a non-const reference version since there are no requirements for the interoperability of range_iterator<const Range> and range_iterator<Range> although they normally exist.. The tests have some defects with respect to dereferencing end iterators. As others have mentioned there should be range versions of all of the functions. *Evaluation of the documentation* The documentation should make very clear that the result for empty ranges into all_of, any_of, none_of as this is currently ambiguous. The documentation should provide more clear performance guarantees about the number of predicate evaluations where this is possible eg. any_of can and does early exit. The documentation should also provide the exception guarantees. *Evaluation of usefulness* If corrected and properly documented these functions will be very useful. The functions any_of etc. are extremely useful for runtime assertions of pre- and post-conditions. *Did I try to use the library?* I used the library with GCC 4.6.1. I had no problems, although I did defect the defects noted above. *How much effort did I put into my evaluation?* I reviewed the code for a couple of hours which was sufficient for the small amount of code under review. *Am I knowledgeable about the problem domain?* Yes, I maintain Boost.Range hence my comments with respect to ranges are reasonably well informed. I have long been a fan of Design by Contract and hence I have experience using my own versions of the functions all_of etc. I vote for inclusion into Boost if and only if: 1. the defects in the search functions and test are resolved 2. clamp_range is removed or replaced. Regards, Neil Groves

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[multi_array] swap
by Maxim Yanchenko 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Hi, The swap support for multi_array was under discussion from the very beginning. A multi_array is quite a heavy object so having light-weight and no-throw swap would be really great. In 2009 a patch was proposed (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1045) and Ronald Garcia generally liked it, but planned to do some extra work before adding swap to multi_array (see the comments for the ticket above). What is the current status? Thanks, Maxim

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