Re: [Boost-users] [program_options] assertion failed on very logn option description

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-27 01:58:40

Dmitriy Chumack wrote:

> hi *
> 
> Win32
> VisualStudio 2005
> boost_1_33_1
> 
> When I supply option description, which length exceeded value of
> options_description::m_default_line_length, to the
> options_description, then I have an assertion failure when I want
> to get help from my command line program:
> 
>   prog --help
> 
>   Assertion failure:
>     file: xstring
>     line: 173
> 
> and them comes very long assert expression.
> 
> This seems to be a compiler specific issue, because the same code,
> compiled on Linux Slackware 11.0 with gcc 3.4.6 and the same version
> of boost, works nice.

Should be fixed in 1.34. You can either checkout RC_1_34_0 branch from
CVS or use just announced 1.34 beta.

- Volodya