[Boost-users] Boost::Regex - bug work-around...?

From: Michael Starling (mstarling_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-28 18:37:05

Hi there...

I've been trying to implement some routines using the Boost library, 
primarily with the excellent RegEx library.  Everything was working well 
enough in small tests, but when I tried running the routines on many 
patterns, my program would crash (it performs various pattern matching and 
search-and-replaces in multiple text files).  I was able to determine that 
the crashes came on the calls to regex-related functions (though it tended 
to be a little unpredictable as to when, depending on the set of files I 
gave it).

I tried changing my project settings (I use VC6, btw) to link with "debug" 
libraries instead of the standard ones (eg. "Debug Multithreaded"), and ran 
the program again, and everything worked perfectly.

Unfortunately... I don't want to have my program running with all-debug 
libraries for performance and size reasons.  However, is it possible to have 
my link-settings set to use standard libraries as before, but for the stuff 
that uses the regex library, to use a debug ".lib" file?  Or... in the 
'bjam' process, is it possible to say something to the effect of "when 
compiling the regex libraries, turn off compiler optimizations", so I can 
get a standard library that should work...?

Hopefully that'll make sense... :P
Thanks for your time,

Mike.