Cross-posting to the developers list, fixing the title. This sounds like a serious bug, possibly worthy of a point release. Can anybody confirm and chime in? On 8/5/2011 4:20 AM, Paul Harris wrote:

Hello, I discovered this bug by accident https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/68866 which was only linked via the ticket mentioned below,

The code below demonstrates that ANY wide-character string of the same length resolves to the same UUID !

Thats pretty darn serious, I expected to see a much more serious mention in the Changelog in boost 1.47.0... for UUID, there was only a mention of a few tickets including this one: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5145 which only mentioned a WARNING in the description ! "Fixed warning: use of logical && with constant operand; switch to bitwise & or remove constant [-Wconstant-logical-operand]"

Surely it should say something like "UUIDs for wide character strings are totally wrong"

Note also that the Changelog link for UUID goes to Utility, not UUID.

The code:

#include <boost/uuid/name_generator.hpp> #include <boost/uuid/nil_generator.hpp> #include <boost/uuid/uuid_io.hpp> #include <iostream>

using namespace boost::uuids; using namespace std;

int main() { { cout << "WIDE" << endl; const wchar_t* a = L"one long string that is something like this and that blahh"; const wchar_t* b = L"hello there you long long string that looks nothing like t";

nil_generator nil; name_generator na(nil()); name_generator nb(nil());

uuid ua = na(a); uuid ub = nb(b);

cout << to_string(ua) << endl; cout << to_string(ub) << endl; }

{ cout << "NARROW" << endl; const char* a = "one long string that is something like this and that blahh"; const char* b = "hello there you long long string that looks nothing like t";

nil_generator nil; name_generator na(nil()); name_generator nb(nil());

uuid ua = na(a); uuid ub = nb(b);

cout << to_string(ua) << endl; cout << to_string(ub) << endl; }

return 0; }

the result:

$ g++ main.cpp && ./a.out WIDE 4ffa48af-9685-5089-97ac-fe6627ead94c 4ffa48af-9685-5089-97ac-fe6627ead94c NARROW 73030b72-a864-5c7b-9963-c0bedff1283e da8943a6-26c9-5641-bd37-427b1b70d619 $

The two different wchar_t strings resolve to the same uuid !!!

What am I doing wrong?

thanks Paul

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