Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #5341: Patch to improve shared library behavior with serialization

Subject: Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #5341: Patch to improve shared library behavior with serialization
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-03 23:32:17

#5341: Patch to improve shared library behavior with serialization
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  Reporter:  Aaron Barany <akb825@…>          |       Owner:  ramey                              
      Type:  Patches                          |      Status:  reopened                           
 Milestone:  To Be Determined                 |   Component:  serialization                      
   Version:  Boost 1.46.0                     |    Severity:  Problem                            
Resolution:                                   |    Keywords:  serialization shared_libraries dlls
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Comment (by Aaron Barany <akb825@…>):

 I have posted an updated patch which fixes a couple compile errors in GCC.
 (I was missing a couple "typename" keywords that Microsoft's compiler
 didn't complain about) All of the serialization regression tests pass
 under gcc with my patchset.

 I did run into one issue when running the regression tests due to cygwin
 in the test test_utf8_codecvt.cpp. It is checking to see if the character
 from the wifstream is WEOF, but wchar_t is a 2 byte integer while WEOF is
 stored in a 4 byte integer with the value -1. When it does the comparison,
 it expands the wchar_t to 4 bytes, but since it's an unsigned value it
 pads the extra 2 bytes with 0s, causing the comparison to fail and
 infinite loops until it runs out of memory. By changing that comparison, I
 was able to get the test to succeed.

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5341#comment:14>
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