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Type Erasure: Infinite loop when accessing an element of a container of any<>, where the element is another container
by Alexandre Pretyman 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Hi Boost list! After watching Sean Parent's lightning-talk "Inheritance is the base class of Evil" ( http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/Inheritance-Is-The-Base-Cl…) I decided to try a similar example with Boost's Type Erasure library, but did not succeed. I created a vector of any<.., ostreamable<>,...>, implemented the stream operator to print this vector type and I can print its' elements. A problem arises, however, when I insert this vector as an element of a second vector. When I print the second vector I encounter an infinite loop ending with a stack overflow when accessing the vector type when it is an element of second vector. The example which demonstrates this behaviour follows attached on this message. I am using Boost 1.55 from the trunk with clang 3.2 from Apple, compiling it with the flags "-std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++" and linking with "-stdlib=libc++". I would be grateful if anyone could try this on your local boost version and compiler. Can anyone shed some light on why this happens? Regards, -- Alexandre Pretyman

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[thread] Test if a thread is running
by Patrick Steele 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

boost = 1.54 OS = Windows 7 compiler = Visual Studio 2005 Hi, in order to test if a boost.thread is running I used timed_join as per http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1667420/how-can-i-tell-reliably-if-a-boo…, which recommended that I should be able to call timed_join with a wait time of 0 ie bool isThreadRunning = ! m_Thread.timed_join( boost::get_system_time() ); I have just upgraded to boost 1.54 to see that this no longer appears to work and that the timed_join function is being deprecated. Can you tell me how I should now check whether a thread is running please? Thanks, Patrick

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Re: [Boost-users] [boost] 1.55.0 beta 1 release candidates available for testing
by Akira Takahashi 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

2013/10/8 Domagoj Saric <dsaritz(a)gmail.com> > On 3.10.2013. 18:19, Marshall Clow wrote:> Release candidate files for > 1.55.0 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. > > With MSVC12 RC: > * 1.54 and 1.55 b1 RC - lots of: > .\boost/iterator/detail/**facade_iterator_category.hpp(**166) : error > C2039: 'assert_not_arg' : is not a member of 'boost::mpl' > This issue fixed by this commit. http://lists.boost.org/boost-commit/2013/05/46330.php However, not merge to release branch yet.

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(Better) Compile time strings
by Rodrigo Madera 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Is there any roadmap for the inclusion of C++11 compile time strings into Boost MPL (or a separate library) as mentioned in Abel Sinkovics and Dave Abrahams' article [1]? If so, any ideas for non-C++11 uses? Thanks, Rodrigo [1] http://cpp-next.com/archive/2012/10/using-strings-in-c-template-metaprogram…

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Utree tutorial
by Olivier Austina 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Hi, I would like to learn how to build AST with utree. I am looking for some basic starting points as newbie in boost. Any suggestion is welcome. Thank you. Regards Olivier

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Boost range iterator pointing to wrong element
by Giorgos Sermaidis 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Hi all, I have a vector<pair<bool, int>> from which I need to read (and possibly write) only the vector elements for which the boolean value of the pair is true. I am using boost range filter and reverse adaptors to do that. However, I noticed that the order of the adaptors, ie whether I use reversed | filtered or filtered | reversed produces different results. In fact, for the latter when I use an iterator to the transformed range to change the boolean value of the pair, then the iterator after the change points to a different vector element. This does not happen when I use reversed | filtered. Below is the code demonstrating the issue. Any ideas as to why this is happening are much appreciated! #include <boost/range/adaptors.hpp> #include <vector> #include <utility> #include <iostream> using namespace boost::adaptors; using container_type = std::vector<std::pair<bool,int>>; struct to_include { bool operator()(const std::pair<bool,int>& x) { return x.first; } }; int main() { container_type container; /* element0: 1, 1 */ /* element1: 1, 2 */ /* element2: 1, 3 */ for(size_t i=0; i!=3; ++i) container.push_back(std::make_pair(true, i+1)); container_type container_cpy = container; /* filter and then reverse */ auto fr = container | filtered(to_include()) | reversed; auto fr_it1 = fr.begin(); auto fr_it2 = std::next(fr_it1); fr_it2->first = false; std::cout << "FILTER AND THEN REVERSE\n"; std::cout << fr_it2->first << " " << fr_it2->second << '\n'; /* prints (1,1) instead of (0,2) */ /* reverse and then filter */ auto rf = container_cpy | reversed | filtered(to_include()); auto rf_it1 = rf.begin(); auto rf_it2 = std::next(rf_it1); rf_it2->first = false; std::cout << "\nREVERSE AND THEN FILTER\n"; std::cout << rf_it2->first << " " << rf_it2->second << '\n'; /* prints (0,2) */ return 0; }

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Serial port example compiles in Makefile, but does not compile under Eclipse
by Ulf Samuelsson 07 Oct '13

07 Oct '13

Running Eclipse 3.7.2 on Ubuntu 12.10 (i386) with Boost 1.49 Trying to get a serial port running with a callback Found: http://www.webalice.it/fede.tft/serial_port/serial_port.html and the source: git clone: git://gitorious.org/serial-port/serial-port.git When I compile a serial port example 4 with g++ I do not get any problems. When I compile exactly the same class from Eclipse I get an error. thread t(boost::bind(&asio::io_service::run, &pimpl->io)); // Offending code ------------------------------------------------------------------ 'boost::bind' is ambiguous ' Candidates are: boost::_bi::bind_t<unsigned int,unsigned int (*)(boost::system::error_code &),boost::_bi::list1<boost::_bi::value<boost::asio::io_service *>>> bind(unsigned int (*)(boost::system::error_code &), boost::asio::io_service *) boost::_bi::bind_t<unsigned int,boost::_mfi::mf0<unsigned int,boost::asio::io_service>,boost::_bi::list1<boost::_bi::value<boost::asio::io_service *>>> bind(unsigned int (boost::asio::io_service::*)(), boost::asio::io_service *) ' AsyncSerial.cpp /nodeserver/src line 102 Semantic Error ------------------------------------------------------------------ pimpl->io is a boost::asio::io_service class AsyncSerialImpl: private boost::noncopyable { public: ... boost::asio::io_service io; ///< Io service object ... }; Someone suggest I declare a pointer to the run function, to resolve the problem, which I tried, but didnt get it right. How do I declare a variable, which can be assigned the io_service::run function? <?> myrun = &boost::asio::io_service::run; Any other ideas? Why compile and link in the makefile and not inside Eclipse? Tried on a Ubuntu 13.04 machine with the same problem. BR Ulf Samuelsson ==================================================================== Part of the code. ------------------------ void AsyncSerial::open(const std::string& devname, unsigned int baud_rate, asio::serial_port_base::parity opt_parity, asio::serial_port_base::character_size opt_csize, asio::serial_port_base::flow_control opt_flow, asio::serial_port_base::stop_bits opt_stop) { if(isOpen()) close(); setErrorStatus(true);//If an exception is thrown, error_ remains true pimpl->port.open(devname); pimpl->port.set_option(asio::serial_port_base::baud_rate(baud_rate)); pimpl->port.set_option(opt_parity); pimpl->port.set_option(opt_csize); pimpl->port.set_option(opt_flow); pimpl->port.set_option(opt_stop); //This gives some work to the io_service before it is started pimpl->io.post(boost::bind(&AsyncSerial::doRead, this)); --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- thread t(boost::bind(&asio::io_service::run, &pimpl->io)); // Offending code --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- pimpl->backgroundThread.swap(t); setErrorStatus(false);//If we get here, no error pimpl->open=true; //Port is now open } class AsyncSerialImpl: private boost::noncopyable { public: AsyncSerialImpl(): io(), port(io), backgroundThread(), open(false), error(false) {} boost::asio::io_service io; ///< Io service object boost::asio::serial_port port; ///< Serial port object boost::thread backgroundThread; ///< Thread that runs read/write operations bool open; ///< True if port open bool error; ///< Error flag mutable boost::mutex errorMutex; ///< Mutex for access to error /// Data are queued here before they go in writeBuffer std::vector<char> writeQueue; boost::shared_array<char> writeBuffer; ///< Data being written size_t writeBufferSize; ///< Size of writeBuffer boost::mutex writeQueueMutex; ///< Mutex for access to writeQueue char readBuffer[AsyncSerial::readBufferSize]; ///< data being read /// Read complete callback boost::function<void (const char*, size_t)> callback; };

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Using boost::iostreams::restrict without overconsuming the original stream
by Avi Kivity 07 Oct '13

07 Oct '13

Hi, I amy trying to split an incoming streams into multiple substreams (specifically, an incoming cpio stream into its individual files). After parsing the header in the incoming stream, I have the file size, and can use boost::iostreams::restrict to create a substream containing only the file data, which the user can subsequently consume. However some experiments with filtering_streambuf show that it will consume past the end of the substream. Will the same happen with restrict?

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Boost MSM : Virtual Memory Exhausted: cannot allocate memory
by rahul baruah 06 Oct '13

06 Oct '13

Hello, I am using boost Meta - state machine. I have 19 state which is compiling ok. but whn i incease the number of state transition in Transition table(using internal_transition_table) i get this error: *"Virtual Memory Exhausted: cannot allocate memory"* * * * *Has anyone has face the same problem?? Regards Rahul

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Doc error?
by Larry 06 Oct '13

06 Oct '13

In the doc (1.54.0) for algorithms under C++14, the first code segment under both equal and mismatch, the last line (for equal here) shows std::equal ( seq1.begin (), seq1.end (), seq1.begin (), seq2.end ()); // false ^^^^^^ Shouldn’t that be std::equal ( seq1.begin (), seq1.end (), seq2.begin (), seq2.end ()); // false ^^^^^^ Similar for mismatch. Larry

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