Re: [Boost-users] A conflict in Boost?

From: Ebbe Kristensen (ebbe_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-15 04:39:25

Edward Diener wrote:

> I know others disagree but my general suggestion is that if you have a
> statically linked library in your final EXE that all libraries should
> be statitically linked, else all libraries should be shared ( DLLs
> under Windows ). I have found over the years that mixing statically
> linked libraries and shared libraries is the biggest non-programming
> headache for programmers, outside of poor or missing documentation.

It wasn't a library problem.

I have now narrowed it down to a single .cpp file. If the condition in the 
following function is enabled, printing the help text crashes:

void ParseParm()
{
   string Something = "One,two,three";

   typedef tokenizer< char_separator<char> > MyTokenizer;
   char_separator<char> sep( "," );
   MyTokenizer tokens( Something, sep );
   unsigned int Row = 0;
   MyTokenizer::iterator row_iter;
#ifdef ENABLE_FAIL
   for( row_iter = tokens.begin(); row_iter != tokens.end(); ++row_iter, 
++Row )
   {
   }
#endif
}

This function is *not* called anywhere in the program, its mere presence is 
enough to make the program fail. Seems like a Borland compiler/linker error 
to me but then I haven't tried this with other tool chains.

Ebbe