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Boost inspection notification (2007-01-06/RC_1_34_0) *X*
by Rene Rivera 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Boost Inspection Report Run Date: 17:02:47 UTC, Saturday 06 January 2007 An inspection program <http://www.boost.org/tools/inspect/index.html> checks each file in the current Boost CVS for various problems, generating this as output. Problems detected include tabs in files, missing copyrights, broken URL's, and similar misdemeanors. 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Boost regression notification (2007-01-06 [RC_1_34_0])
by Douglas Gregor 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Boost Regression test failures Report time: 2007-01-06T10:25:13Z This report lists all regression test failures on release platforms. Detailed report: http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_34_0/developer/i… 11 failures in 5 libraries concept_check (6) date_time (1) regex (1) test (2) utility (1) |concept_check| class_concept_fail_expected: borland-5.6.4 borland-5.8.2 borland-5.8.2 msvc-6.5 msvc-6.5 msvc-7.0 |date_time| testgenerators: qcc-3.3.5_gpp |regex| regex_regress_threaded: msvc-6.5 |test| prg_exec_fail2: darwin-4.0.1 prg_exec_fail3: cw-9.4 |utility| operators_test: gcc-3.4.5_linux_x86_64

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Re: [boost] Boost threads + MSVSC + /Za + client code
by Sohail Somani 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

> [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Peter Dimov > Thinking about it a bit more, there is a third reason that > Boost.Config > shouldn't be doing that. BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS is a user > macro, and the > config system shouldn't be touching it. > > The easiest solution is to ignore Boost.Config until the meanings of > _HAS_THREADS and _DISABLE_THREADS are sorted out and check > everything at the > library level. Hey, this sounds awesome. So you seem to be suggesting that Boost.Config should not touch *_THREADS until we sort out the meaning of those? Just thinking of what sort of local patch I will apply (this is what I've actually done currently). Thanks! Sohail

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Error in libs/regex/build/gcc-shared.mak (current cvs)
by Neal Becker 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

ICU_LDFLAGS= -L$(ICU_PATH)/lib This is wrong. On x86_64, the path is .../lib64. Can we maybe find a better way to do this?

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ConceptCheck failures
by Arkadiy Vertleyb 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Are those real? One of them, for example reads: "Support for Borland compilers older than BCB2006 is deprecated in Boost 1.34", which looks like the result of #error directive... Regards, Arkadiy

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[Boost-bugs] [ boost-Patches-1627420 ] [thread] MSVS: Allow use of thread headers with /Za
by SourceForge.net 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Patches item #1627420, was opened at 2007-01-03 15:17 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by sohail_ You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=307586&aid=1627420&group_… Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: sohail (sohail_) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: [thread] MSVS: Allow use of thread headers with /Za Initial Comment: The following code will not compile if built with /Za on Visual C++ 7.1+: #include <boost/thread/once.hpp> int main(){} It will fail with the following assertion: # error "Threading support unavaliable: it has been explicitly disabled with BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS" The reason is that the Boost.Config machinery realizes that you cannot use the Windows API unless you enable language extensions. As a result, threads cannot be available. This is correct behaviour when you are indeed *using* the Windows API. However, in the above case where you separately compile the threads library, you do not actually use the Windows API => language extensions are not necessary => no need to explicitly specify BOOST_DISABLE_WIN32. I therefore submit that there be some machinery/configuration variables to allow libraries to specify whether or not they require the Windows API. The proposed patch does not modify existing behaviour. That is, if the config machinery decides that the API is needed, it is required, unless explicitly disabled. The code to do this in library xyz would look something like this: #if defined(BOOST_BUILDING_WHATEVER) # define BOOST_NO_REQUIRE_WIN32 #endif #include <boost/config.hpp> I am uncertain of the exact name of the macro that is required but I am certain a macro is required. The attached patch is against 1.33.1. I don't think there is any rush to put this into 1.34. I'm pretty sure it would be nice, but people can manually patch it until 1.35 whenever that is released. Thanks, Sohail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: sohail (sohail_) Date: 2007-01-05 19:46 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1682817 Originator: YES File Added: 0_boost_building_threads.patch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: sohail (sohail_) Date: 2007-01-05 12:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1682817 Originator: YES See also this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/23774/focus=23774 For a discussion that seems to converge on having Boost.Config not touch BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: sohail (sohail_) Date: 2007-01-03 15:40 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1682817 Originator: YES File Added: boost_no_require_win32.patch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: sohail (sohail_) Date: 2007-01-03 15:25 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1682817 Originator: YES That should be: #if !defined(BOOST_BUILDING_WHATEVER) :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=307586&aid=1627420&group_… ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Boost-bugs mailing list Boost-bugs(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-bugs

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[Boost-bugs] [ boost-Bugs-1629065 ] type_traits has bad header guard
by SourceForge.net 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Bugs item #1629065, was opened at 2007-01-05 16:10 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107586&aid=1629065&group_… Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: type_traits Group: release 1.34.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Matt Timmermans (mtimmerm) Assigned to: John Maddock (johnmaddock) Summary: type_traits has bad header guard Initial Comment: type_traits.hpp begins: #ifndef BOOST_TR1_FUNCTIONAL_HPP_INCLUDED # define BOOST_TR1_FUNCTIONAL_HPP_INCLUDED which prevents functional.hpp from working. Cheers, Matt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=107586&aid=1629065&group_… ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Boost-bugs mailing list Boost-bugs(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-bugs

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Re: [boost] Boost threads + MSVSC + /Za + client code
by Sohail Somani 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

> [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Peter Dimov > > Hey, this sounds awesome. So you seem to be suggesting that > > Boost.Config should not touch *_THREADS until we sort out > the meaning > > of those? > [snip] > But now that I looked at the code, it > doesn't really seem that much easier. There is a comment in win32.hpp: [snip] > that indicates that our past discussion (this is not the > first time this > comes up) has had an effect. Oh, I couldn't find any threads on this topic before. Maybe I should try again :) As for that comment, that still seems to have not differentiated between being multi-threaded and having a threading-API for Boost.Threads available which I think is the fundamental problem as you suggest below. > Mixing /Za and /Ze still seems > to result in > inconsistent BOOST_HAS_THREADS, though. Mixing /Za and /Ze? One can't possibly do that, can they? Or did you mean something else. This breaks > detail/lightweight_mutex, for example. It even seems to break > Regex, there > are a number of BOOST_HAS_THREADS checks there that use the > "are we in MT > mode" meaning of the macro, as opposed to its "do we have a > threading API" > meaning. How can we test this? What I've currently done is the following: #if defined(BOOST_BUILDING_THREADS) \ && defined(BOOST_DISABLE_WIN32) && defined(_WIN32) \ && !defined(BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS) && !defined(BOOST_HAS_PTHREADS) # define BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS #endif I've run all the tests in <threading>multi and they seem to pass though I haven't gone through the log (depending on exit code). Should I try it in single? In any case, I appreciate your comments. Sohail

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[Boost-bugs] [ boost-Patches-1627420 ] [thread] MSVS: Allow use of thread headers with /Za
by SourceForge.net 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Patches item #1627420, was opened at 2007-01-03 15:17 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by sohail_ You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=307586&aid=1627420&group_… Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: sohail (sohail_) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: [thread] MSVS: Allow use of thread headers with /Za Initial Comment: The following code will not compile if built with /Za on Visual C++ 7.1+: #include <boost/thread/once.hpp> int main(){} It will fail with the following assertion: # error "Threading support unavaliable: it has been explicitly disabled with BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS" The reason is that the Boost.Config machinery realizes that you cannot use the Windows API unless you enable language extensions. As a result, threads cannot be available. This is correct behaviour when you are indeed *using* the Windows API. However, in the above case where you separately compile the threads library, you do not actually use the Windows API => language extensions are not necessary => no need to explicitly specify BOOST_DISABLE_WIN32. I therefore submit that there be some machinery/configuration variables to allow libraries to specify whether or not they require the Windows API. The proposed patch does not modify existing behaviour. That is, if the config machinery decides that the API is needed, it is required, unless explicitly disabled. The code to do this in library xyz would look something like this: #if defined(BOOST_BUILDING_WHATEVER) # define BOOST_NO_REQUIRE_WIN32 #endif #include <boost/config.hpp> I am uncertain of the exact name of the macro that is required but I am certain a macro is required. The attached patch is against 1.33.1. I don't think there is any rush to put this into 1.34. I'm pretty sure it would be nice, but people can manually patch it until 1.35 whenever that is released. Thanks, Sohail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: sohail (sohail_) Date: 2007-01-05 12:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1682817 Originator: YES See also this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/23774/focus=23774 For a discussion that seems to converge on having Boost.Config not touch BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: sohail (sohail_) Date: 2007-01-03 15:40 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1682817 Originator: YES File Added: boost_no_require_win32.patch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: sohail (sohail_) Date: 2007-01-03 15:25 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1682817 Originator: YES That should be: #if !defined(BOOST_BUILDING_WHATEVER) :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=307586&aid=1627420&group_… ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Boost-bugs mailing list Boost-bugs(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-bugs

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Re: [boost] [Boost-users] Boost threads + MSVSC + /Za + client code
by Sohail Somani 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hi, Any takers? The workaround I've found for the problem below is to #define _MSC_EXTENSIONS before including any boost thread headers. It /appears/ that this is only necessary when separately compiling boost threads. Sorry for the cross-post. > With Visual C++, I can't seem to determine why if I simply include > boost/threads/once.hpp, I need to enable language extensions for that > translation unit. I'm going to dig into this further today but I would > appreciate if someone has figured out a solution short of allowing > language extensions. I can understand requiring it for building boost > threads (as windows.h seems to have some extended syntax) but I'm not > sure of the logic behind requiring client code to use it as well. Thanks! Sohail

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