[Boost-users] format un-debuggability

From: Drumheller, Michael (michael.drumheller_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-12 12:46:22

If you don't pass enough arguments to a boost::format you get this:
"boost::too_few_args: format-string refered to more arguments than were
passed"
Unfortunately there is, as far as I can tell, no way to figure out where
the error happened, other than building a debug version of your app and
breaking into the debugger on that error.  Needless to say that can be
very inconvenient.  

Would it be possible to fix boost::format (which, by the way, is IMHO
one of the most wonderful of all the Boost libraries!!) so that its
exceptions carry a little more information about their origins (e.g.,
embedding the format-string itself in the message)?

Thank you.

Michael Drumheller
Boeing Phantom Works
Mathematics and Engineering Analysis
425.373.2703 michael.drumheller_at_[hidden]
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