Re: [Boost-build] Early bjam abort

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Early bjam abort
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-04-30 12:52:20

AMDG

On 04/30/2012 08:16 AM, Nogradi, Chris wrote:
> Steve,
> 
>> With this change I am seeing bjam stuck in an endless loop
> 

I just fixed a bug that can cause such behavior
in r78281.  I wrote a test case that generates
random headers and it passes consistently now.

> Here is some additional info, it appears that there are only 2 targets in the list and they point to each other.  I ran this code:
> 
> TARGET * target_scc( TARGET * t )
> {
>     TARGET * result = t;
>     TARGET * tmp;
>     while ( result->scc_root )
>     {
>         printf( "OBJECT: %s\n", object_str( result->name ) );
>         result = result->scc_root;
>     }
> 
> And got this endlessly:
> 
> OBJECT: <object(c-scanner)@19136#some_path/file1.h
> OBJECT: <object(c-scanner)@19136#some_path/file2.h
> OBJECT: <object(c-scanner)@19136#some_path/file1.h
> OBJECT: <object(c-scanner)@19136#some_path/file2.h
> OBJECT: <object(c-scanner)@19136#some_path/file1.h
> OBJECT: <object(c-scanner)@19136#some_path/file2.h
> ...
> OBJECT: <object(c-scanner)@19136#some_path/file1.h
> OBJECT: <object(c-scanner)@19136#some_path/file2.h
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe