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Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] boost 1.33.1, HP-UX ia64 & gcc-3.4.4
by Frank Bergemann 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

sorry, the issue is not related to boost::serialization, but boost::spirit - see http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user. Maybe it's even a gcc-3.4.6 bug on hp-ux B11.31 ia64 - see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42791 regards, Frank ___________________________________________________________ Preisknaller: WEB.DE DSL Flatrate für nur 16,99 Euro/mtl.! http://produkte.web.de/go/02/

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Ease of use vs. stability
by Ruediger Berlich 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi there, I am using a multitude of different Boost libraries in my code. Since that code is growing quickly, I am increasingly running into bugs which I (sometimes) consider to be on Boost's side. Allowing only selected Boost versions which are known to run fine with my code would allow me to keep that code simpler and thus less error-prone. As my main platform is Linux, however, which usually comes with a given version of Boost (currently often 1.39), my users would be forced to compile Boost themselves, which will mean that they are less likely to start using my code. If I generally allow all Boost versions above a given version, I have to work around known bugs in certain Boost versions, at the expense of code simplicity and thus stability. However, it will be easier for users to adopt my code. Which strategy did you pick for your code ? Kind Regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Ruediger Berlich

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[chrono] v0.3 New Stopwatch Feature
by vicente.botet 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi, I'm pleased to announce the new version of the Boost.Chrono library. The implementaton is quite stable; the new interface could suffer of some modifications, renaming, ... as far as you submit some proposals. I would request a formal review soon and I will need a review manager. I know that review managers are hard to find, so if you are interested in the library, please the Review Wizards. The library can be downloaded from http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=chrono… and the documentation is online on the sandbox http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/chrono/libs/chrono/doc/html/index.ht…. I've tested it with gcc and MSVC. Previoous version of the library have been testted on Mac, but I'm not able to test this platform. Could someone check if there are some regressions on Mac? New Features: * Process cpu clocks * Independent process cpu clocks for real, user, system process CPU time * Global process cpu clock for real, user, system process CPU time * Stopwatch concept measuring elapsed time between different points in time associated to the operations start, stop, suspend and resume. * stopwatch is a model Stopwatch measuring the elapsed time between the start and the stop operations. * stopwatch_accumulator is a model Stopwatch allowing to accumulate several time samples and give the average, ... * Scoped helper classes allowing to pairwise start/stop operations, suspend/resume and resume/suspend a Stopwatch. * Stopwatch Formatter concept * stopwatch formatter "%ds\n" * stopwatch accumulator formatter "%c times, sum%ss, min%ms, max%Ms, mean%as\n" * time formatter "real %rs, cpu %cs (%p%), user %us, system %ss\n" * digital_time decomposition class separating days, hours,minutes,seconds, nanoseconds from any duration class (looking for a better name) * digital_time formatter "%d days(s) %h:%m:%s.%n\n" * stopwatch_reporter is a convenient generic class reporting elapsed time for the Stopwatch concept. * stopclock<Clock> shortcut stopwatch_reporter<stopwatch<Clcok>> * typeof registration for classes duration and time_point Depreceated Features: * The classes process_times, process_clock, process_timer, timer and run_timer are now deprecated as the preceding additions are more generic. However for backward compatibility they are preserved until inclusion of the library in Boost. Next follows the equivalences: timer<> ~ stopwatch<> process_timer ~ stopwatch<process_cpu_clock> run_timer ~ stopclock<> Bug Fixes * Try to correct warning C4251: 'boost::chrono::run_timer::m_format' : class 'std::basic_string<_Elem,_Traits,_Ax>' needs to have dll-interface to be used by clients of class 'boost::chrono::run_timer', by don't including inlines functions using the std::string m_format. For people that doesn't know it yet, Boost.Chrono library provides: * The C++0x Standard Library's common_type. * The C++0x Standard Library's compile-time rational arithmetic. * The C++0x Standard Library's time utilities, including: * Class template duration * Class template time_point * Clocks: * system_clock * monotonic_clock * high_resolution_clock * typeof registration for classes duration and time_point * Process clocks: * process_real_CPU_clocks, capturing real-CPU times. * process_user_CPU_clocks, capturing user-CPU times. * process_system_CPU_clocks, capturing system-CPU times. * process_cpu_clock, tuple-like class capturing at once real, user-CPU, and system-CPU times. * Stopwatches: * stopwatch, capturing elapsed Clock times. * stopwatch_accumulator, capturing cummulated elapsed Clock times. * scoped helper classes allowing to pairwise start/stop operations, suspend/resume and resume/suspend a Stopwatch. * Stopclocks or Stopwatch reporters: * stopwatch_reporter, convenient reporting of models of Stopwatch results. * stopclock<Clock> shortcut of stopwatch_reporter<stopwatch<Clock>> Best regards, _____________________ Vicente Juan Botet Escribá

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[program_options] linking error with example
by katharina 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi, I have problems starting out with the program_options library. Looking at the tutorial, I wanted to try out the first example metioned, first.cpp (which is located in boost_1_41_0/libs/program_options/example). But there seems to be some linking error. I try to compile it by g++ -I ~boost_1_41_0 first.cpp -o first ~/boost_1_41_0/stage/lib/libboost_program_options.a But then I get a strange error: /tmp/ccDB6KSC.o: In function `boost::program_options::basic_command_line_parser<char>::extra_parser(boost::function1<std::pair<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, std::allocator<boost::function_base> >)': first.cpp:(.text._ZN5boost15program_options25basic_command_line_parserIcE12extra_parserENS_9function1ISt4pairISsSsERKSsSaINS_13function_baseEEEE[boost::program_options::basic_command_line_parser<char>::extra_parser(boost::function1<std::pair<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, std::allocator<boost::function_base> >)]+0x27): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::detail::cmdline::set_additional_parser(boost::function1<std::pair<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, std::allocator<boost::function_base> >)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Katharina

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[spirit] boost 1.33.1, HP-UX ia64 & gcc-3.4.6 - doesn't work with optimization (-O2)
by Frank Bergemann 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi, some supplementary information: The problem happens also for gcc-3.4.6 - which is the final version of gcc-3.x.x series. If i compile for 32 bit there is even a coredump for execution: (gdb) r Starting program: /nfs/uh01/frank/TESTX/sample test is '<pDeleteHlrSubscriberIn class_id="0" tracking_level="0" version="0">' Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error si_code: 1 - BUS_ADRALN - Invalid address alignment. Please refer to the following link that helps in handling unaligned data: http://docs.hp.com/en/7730/newhelp0610/pragmas.htm#pragma-pack-ex3. boost::spirit::grammar<basic_xml_grammar<char>,boost::spirit::parser_context<boost::spirit::nil_t> >::grammar (this=0x40025cf0) at sp_counted_base_gcc_ia64.hpp:38 38 "r"(pw)); I opened a bug for gcc: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42791 And i asked HP for confirmation. I'll keep you informed... best regards, Frank ___________________________________________________________ Preisknaller: WEB.DE DSL Flatrate für nur 16,99 Euro/mtl.! http://produkte.web.de/go/02/

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fusion struct adapt macro, construct the struct from a fusion vector
by Hicham Mouline 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hello, I have a struct params { ... }; and I have adapted it as a fusion sequence. However I can't construct a params from a boost::fusion::vector<> with the same types. const params p( v ); // v is a fusion::vector with the same type const params p = v; // both failed to compile Do I need to actually write a specific ctor for params? Will it change the result of the adapt macro? Can I iterate with an algorithm over the vector at runtime to assign to p from v? with fusion::for_each() I couldn't write the functor that would let me assign to p. Regards,

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[boost.asio] Flush serial port buffers?
by Pascal Kesseli 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi everyone My program currently writes some characters to a device connected over the serial interface and subsequently changes the baud rate, followed by sending some more characters. The problem is that the first transfer does not seem to complete before the baud rate switch and thus is sent with the new baud rate, which is not supposed to happen. What I am looking for is something like a flush() before changing the baud rate. Using: boost::asio::write(*port, buffer(buf, size), transfer_all()); does not seem to work. Any suggestions? Thanks and best regards Pascal _________________________________________________________________ Personalisiere dein Messenger, inklusive persönliche Smileys ;-) Überrasche deine Freunde - wir zeigen dir wie's geht. http://rubrik.ch.msn.com/reportagen/personalisieren.aspx

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Boost MultiArray and Boost uBLAS - Designed to be used together?
by Bilokon, Paul 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi all, Were Boost MultiArray and Boost uBLAS designed to be used together? I.e. can I apply linear algebra operations to Boost MultiArrays and get Boost MultiArrays back? If this is impossible / impractical / inefficient, what's the right approach (conversion?). I would be very keen to know your thoughts on this. Many thanks for your help. Best wishes, Paul Paul Bilokon, Vice President Citigroup | FX - Options Trading | Quants 33 Canada Square | Canary Wharf | Floor 3 London, E14 5LB Phone: +44 20 798-62191 paul.bilokon(a)citi.com<mailto:paul.bilokon@citi.com>

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[spirit] boost 1.33.1, HP-UX ia64 & gcc-3.4.4 - doesn't work with optimization (-O2)
by Frank Bergemann 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hello, i posted a problem against boost::serialization. (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/54935) But now i could track it down to boost::spirit. I have extracted boost::serialization stuff , which is dealing with boost spirit, in a mini demo program (see attached tar file). It accepts XML input if compiled with -O0 or -O1 and returns: |hpux03 407> make sample /usr/local/gcc-3.4.4/bin/g++ -g -mlp64 -Wall -mtune=itanium2 -O1 -I/nfs/uh01/frank/userspace/OPSC_DIAXHBS_dev_R2.2_hpport/include -c sample.cc /usr/local/gcc-3.4.4/bin/g++ -g -mlp64 -Wall -mtune=itanium2 -O1 -I/nfs/uh01/frank/userspace/OPSC_DIAXHBS_dev_R2.2_hpport/include -c fbe_basic_xml_grammar.cc ./sample /usr/local/gcc-3.4.4/bin/g++ -g -mlp64 -Wall -mtune=itanium2 -O1 -I/nfs/uh01/frank/userspace/OPSC_DIAXHBS_dev_R2.2_hpport/include -lunwind -o sample sample.o fbe_basic_xml_grammar.o |hpux03 408> ./sample test is '<pDeleteHlrSubscriberIn class_id="0" tracking_level="0" version="0">' parse_start_tag('<pDeleteHlrSubscriberIn class_id="0" tracking_level="0" version="0">') returned 1 But it fails, if i use -O2 or -O3: |hpux03 411> make sample /usr/local/gcc-3.4.4/bin/g++ -g -mlp64 -Wall -mtune=itanium2 -O2 -I/nfs/uh01/frank/userspace/OPSC_DIAXHBS_dev_R2.2_hpport/include -c sample.cc ./sample /usr/local/gcc-3.4.4/bin/g++ -g -mlp64 -Wall -mtune=itanium2 -O2 -I/nfs/uh01/frank/userspace/OPSC_DIAXHBS_dev_R2.2_hpport/include -c fbe_basic_xml_grammar.cc /usr/local/gcc-3.4.4/bin/g++ -g -mlp64 -Wall -mtune=itanium2 -O2 -I/nfs/uh01/frank/userspace/OPSC_DIAXHBS_dev_R2.2_hpport/include -lunwind -o sample sample.o fbe_basic_xml_grammar.o |hpux03 412> ./sample test is '<pDeleteHlrSubscriberIn class_id="0" tracking_level="0" version="0">' parse_start_tag('<pDeleteHlrSubscriberIn class_id="0" tracking_level="0" version="0">') returned 0 Is it a bug of gcc-3.4.4? (for HP-UX B11.31 ia64?) Or boost::spirit using experimental C++ feature (for level of gcc-3.4.4)? - many thanks! Frank Bergemann ______________________________________________________ GRATIS für alle WEB.DE-Nutzer: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://movieflat.web.de

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[boost][interval containers (itl)] New library release on sourceforge
by Joachim Faulhaber 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Dear boost users, I have developed a library of interval containers called Interval Template Library (ITL). The library, initially developed in an software industrial context, was proposed at the boost developer's list in May 2008, refined according to boost standards, presented at boostcon09 and submitted for a formal review in September 2009. Hartmut Kaiser is now supporting the ITL as review manager. I have uploaded a new release of the core library of interval containers (itl), extensions (itl_xt) and a test tool (validate) for law based automated testings as itl_plus_3_2_1 at the itl's project site at sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/itl/ Interval_sets and interval_maps of the ITL proved to be very useful in many fields the most important of which is the date and time problem domain. * Interval_sets and interval_maps can be used like the sets or maps of elements. Yet they are much more space and time efficient when the elements occur in contiguous chunks. * Interval containers allow for intersection with interval_sets to work with segmentation. For instance you might want to intersect an interval container with a grid of months and then iterate over those months. * The ITL comes with a universal mechanism of aggregation, that allows to combine associated values in meaningful ways when intervals overlap on insertion. Aggregation results that are difficult to obtain by handwritten algorithms can be computed in an abstract and simple way. * itl::interval_bitset is a self compressing class to represent very large bitsets. It combines interval and bitset compression. * You can get an instant impression of the usefulness of interval containers by looking at the collection of examples: http://www.herold-faulhaber.de/boost_itl/doc/libs/itl/doc/html/boost_itl/ex… * To get an overview over the itl's api refer to http://www.herold-faulhaber.de/boost_itl/doc/libs/itl/doc/html/boost_itl/in… I hope you will find this useful. In case you do, I'd like to encourage you to send in your feed back and suggestions and to participate in the upcoming review on the boost developer's list. Best regards Joachim Faulhaber --------------------------------------------------------------------- Interval Template Library (ITL) | Boost.IntervalContainers --------------------------------------------------------------------- Availability: Project page at sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/itl/ Boost Vault: http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=Conta… Boost Quickbook documentation (core library itl) http://www.herold-faulhaber.de/boost_itl/doc/libs/itl/doc/html/index.html Doxygen Documentation (extensions itl_xt, validate) http://www.herold-faulhaber.de/itl/index.html The name ITL is provisional and will probably be changed to Boost.IntervalContainers after the review.

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