Re: [Boost-users] bcbboost 0.4 released

From: Nicola Musatti (Nicola.Musatti_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-27 01:29:16

Russell Hind wrote:
[...]
> Did you manage to get any of the ublas patches I sent you in to this 
> release (or do you know if any have been commited for 1.34.0)?  We're 
> just starting to think about moving to 1.33.1 and then possibly from 
> BCB6 to BDS2006 but as we're now using ublas, it would be nice to not 
> have to modify the code ourselves.

Not yet. I still have to look into that.

> Also, just as a side note:  The change notes state that filesystem 
> builds as a DLL on windows but hasn't been tested.  You should add a 
> warning that filesystem can't be used as dll on Windows (certainly on 
> Borland, but I don't believe it is just limited to borland) because the 
> way name checkers are passed around are as C function pointers, but when 
> you use it as a dll, you actually pass the address of the jmp 
> instruction (i.e. the function offset table for the loaded filesystem 
> dll) but inside the dll, filesystem checks against the actual name 
> checker instance and so even if you pass in filesystem::native, your 
> value for that differs from what the dll checks against internally, and 
> so all namechecking fails (and I think reverts to default).

I see. So I'll have to look into disabling DLL builds for BCB2006 too, 
both in bcbboost and in 1.34.

Cheers,
Nicola Musatti