[Boost-users] [serialization] Bug in demo.cpp?

From: Paul Giaccone (paulg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-30 06:16:29

Does the demo program demo.cpp 
<http://boost.org/libs/serialization/example/demo.cpp> have a bug in it?

When I run it, it crashes at the line that does the actual serialisation:

    oa << s;

in save_schedule(), reporting the error:

    Unhandled exception at 0x7c59bbf3 in SerializationDemo.exe: 
Microsoft C++ exception: __non_rtti_object @ 0x0012ee98

at line 260 of dbgheap.c:

    pvBlk = _heap_alloc_dbg(nSize, nBlockUse, szFileName, nLine);

The call stack is

 >    SerializationDemo.exe!_nh_malloc_dbg(unsigned int nSize=33, int 
nhFlag=1240696, int nBlockUse=5007849, const char * 
szFileName=0xe06d7363, int nLine=1)  Line 260 + 0x15    C
     SerializationDemo.exe!malloc(unsigned int nSize=0)  Line 139 + 
0x15    C

I'm compiling in Windows 2000 using Visual .NET, if this helps.

Paul Giaccone

PS: I modified the filename so it is correct for Windows (using 
backslashes) - it might be a good idea to use a boost::path here to make 
the code portable.