Re: [Boost-testing] Lots of spurious Borland failures?

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-20 13:42:27

Anthony Williams wrote:
> Running the tests directly from the command line (bjam --v2 release
> borland-5.8.2 regex_regress), it compiles OK, but I get a link-time
> failure:
>
> borland.link
> ..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\regex\test\regex_regress.test\borland-5.8.2\re
> lease\link-static\threading-multi\regex_regress.exe
> g:/boost/rc-1-34/boost/bin.v2/libs/regex/test/regex_regress.test/borlan
> d-5.8.2/release/link-static/threading-multi/regex_regress.tds:
> 0x000f0000 / 0x06 000000
> Warning: unknown heap name   : 0x03000000 / 0x03000000
> Fatal: Error detected (IMP327)
> Fatal: Access violation.  Link terminated.

OK, I hadn't realised it was a release build, I can reproduce now, looks 
like a known linker bug: http://qc.borland.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=32020 that 
occurs when the project exceeds a certain size.  I guess I'll just have to 
mark them up as expected :-(

Thanks, John.