[Boost-users] [iostreams] bzip2 filter fails with large file on Xen system

Subject: [Boost-users] [iostreams] bzip2 filter fails with large file on Xen system
From: Nicola (nvitacolonna_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-22 13:29:09

Hello,
I've tried the example at

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/iostreams/doc/index.html

It works correctly on small files (a few kb), but it raises the 
exception "bzip2 error" on a file as large as ~270Mb, when compiled with 
g++ 4.2, with no special flags, on a 64 bit Linux Xen system. On another 
system (Mac OS X), the example runs fine on that same file. Here is some 
info about the system:

Linux kernel: 2.6.24-26-xen
bzlib2: 1.0.4-2ubuntu4
Boost: 1.42.0

Are there known incompatibilities with that system or with 
virtualization environments in general? Is there any "self-test" that I 
can run to test the library?

Nicola