Re: [Boost-users] [MSM] "favor_compile_time" policy disables "kleene" events. (Bug?)

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [MSM] "favor_compile_time" policy disables "kleene" events. (Bug?)
From: Christophe Henry (christophe.j.henry_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-02-26 15:21:14

> Hi everyone,
> Hi Christophe,
>
> While trying to speedup compilation of my MSM/eUML-based state machine, I 
> seem to have found a bug.
>
> I added the "favor_compile_time" policy to the type-definition of my 
> state-machine as the documentation suggests.
> I did not use the macro "BOOST_MSM_BACK_GENERATE_PROCESS_EVENT" because I 
> do not have any sub-statemachines.
>
> This did speed up compilation, however obviously by changing my 
> transition-table:
> All "kleene"-events in my transition-table are ignored, when defining the 
> state-machine with the "favor_compile_time" policy.
>
> Can anyone confirm this or am I using it wrong? (Was this policy supposed 
> to work with eUML in the first place?)
>
> Thanks,
> Deniz
>
> PS: I am using GCC 4.7.2 with Boost 1.53.

Hi Deniz,

my mistake, I forgot to add this limitation in the doc. The 
favor_compile_time_policy loses not only event hierarchies but also kleene 
events.
I don't think there is a way to achieve this with the current 
implementation.

Sorry about this,
Christophe