Re: [Boost-users] [1.53.0] Beta release candidates 2 now available for testing

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [1.53.0] Beta release candidates 2 now available for testing
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-01-28 17:39:38

On Jan 5, 2013, at 9:37 AM, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>> Updated release candidate files for 1.53.0 beta 1 are available at
>> http://boost.cowic.de/rc/
>> 
>> As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download
>> the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report
>> both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy.
> 
> I built the RC on Mac OS X with both clang and gcc w/o errors.
> However, when I built using clang and libc++ in C++11 mode, I found two problems:
> 
> 	./b2 toolset=clang  cxxflags="-std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ -Wno-unused-variable" linkflags="-stdlib=libc++"
> 
> Issue #1:
> 
>> clang-darwin.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/chrono/build/clang-darwin-11/release/threading-multi/chrono.o
>> In file included from libs/chrono/src/chrono.cpp:14:
>> In file included from ./boost/chrono/detail/inlined/chrono.hpp:13:
>> In file included from ./boost/chrono/chrono.hpp:11:
>> ./boost/chrono/duration.hpp:353:49: error: constexpr function never produces a constant expression
>>        static BOOST_CHRONO_LIB_CONSTEXPR float lowest() BOOST_CHRONO_LIB_NOEXCEPT_OR_THROW
>>                                                ^
>> ./boost/chrono/duration.hpp:355:21: note: non-constexpr function 'max' cannot be used in a constant expression
>>            return -(std::numeric_limits<float>::max) ();
>>                    ^
>> /usr/bin/../lib/c++/v1/limits:443:43: note: declared here
>>    _LIBCPP_INLINE_VISIBILITY static type max() _NOEXCEPT {return __base::max();}
>>                                          ^
> 
> This is a bug in libc++; std::numeric_limits<>::max() is not marked as constexpr.
> This has been fixed in the libc++ trunk, and should appear in the next clang/libc++ release.

And it has been fixed in Xcode 4.6, released today.

-- Marshall

Marshall Clow     Idio Software   <mailto:mclow.lists_at_[hidden]>

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