Re: [Boost-users] [program_options] bug or not... change proposal

From: Ovanes Markarian (om_boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-10 07:38:11

On Thu, August 10, 2006 13:04, Loïc Joly wrote:
> Ovanes Markarian a écrit :
>> In my former post I wrote about assertions in program_options library...
>>
>> Since nobody answered I had to debug some boost::code. As I found out, current assertion of po
>> relies in the following:
>>
>> in the function format_paragraph (option_description.cpp:365) is written:
>>
>> //...
>> if (line_begin + (line_length - indent) > par_end)
>> //...
>>
>> line_begin is of type std::string::const_iterator;
>>
>> line_length - indent is 51
>>
>> in the last line only one word is written, which is shorter then 51 characters. By adding 51 to
>> an
>> iterator an assertion check is made, that the addition will produce an iterator out of string
>> bounds.
>
> I think I remember reading something about this problem in
> program_option. Have you checked latest CVS or in the dev mailing list ?
>
> --
> Loïc
>
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Thanks for the reply. No I did not search the lists for this... May be I should.

With Kind Regards,

Ovanes Markarian