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boost.regex and submatches
by markus_schoepflin 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

Hi all, I'm trying to match strings of the form "a&b&c&d" with the following expression: "(?:([^&]+)&)*([^&]+)". This nicely matches the whole string but instead of giving me the submatches "a", "b", "c" and "d" I just get "c" and "d". Could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Sample code, tested with MSVC6SP5 and Boost 1.26.0: #include <boost/regex.hpp> #include <string> #include <iostream> void main(void) { const char *input ="a&b&c&d"; const boost::regex syntax("(?:([^&]+)&)*([^&]+)"); boost::cmatch matches; if(boost::regex_match(input, matches, syntax)) { for (boost::cmatch::size_type i = 0; i < matches.size(); ++i) std::cout << static_cast<std::string>(matches[i]) << '\n'; } } Tia, Markus

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try building graph library 1.25.1 with MSV6SP5
by acarsac＠yahoo.fr 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

Hi all, I' am trying to build the grap library with MSVC6SP5 (not with STLPORT 4.0, the FAQ said it does not work!). What I done: setting up MSVC vars remove space from directories upgrade jam. build boost. (everything ok exectpt ) changes %BOOST_ROOT%/jamfile //////////////////////////////// project-root ; subinclude libs/graph/build ; subinclude status ; //////////////////////////////// change %BOOST_ROOT%/libs/graph/build : //////////////////////////////// subproject libs/graph/build ; SOURCES = graphviz_graph_lex graphviz_digraph_lex graphviz_graph_parser graphviz_digraph_parser ; lib libbgl-viz : ../src/$(SOURCES).cpp : <define>GRAPHVIZ_GRAPH=boost::GraphvizGraph : <include>$(BOOST_ROOT) : debug <inlining>on ; //////////////////////////////// then: cd %BOOST_ROOT% jam -sBOOST_ROOT=. -sTOOLS="msvc" and getting soething like: msvc-Archive-action libs\graph\build\bin\libbgl- viz\msvc\debug\runtime-link-dynamic\libbgl-viz.lib Microsoft (R) Library Manager Version 6.00.8447 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1992-1998. All rights reserved. graphviz_digraph_parser.obj : fatal error LNK1179: invalid or corrupt file: duplicate comdat "?get_v alue@?$property_value_end@U? $property@W4graph_graph_attribute_t@boost@@V?$map@V?$basic_string@DU? $ch ar_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@V12@U?$less@V? $basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$alloca tor@D@2@@std@@@2@V?$allocator@V?$basic_st2ff4a489" how to fix it, it is the right way to proceed ? Alex

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RE: [Boost-Users] Polymorphic containers (was Re: shared_ptr and inheritance)
by Björn Karlsson 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

> From: rz0 [mailto:rz0@yahoo.com] > Hi Bjorn > > Thank you very much for the reply. > > Unfortunately these classes are provided to me and as part of the > requirements, I must be able to work with them. In re-thinking the > problem, it seems that I'm in desperate need of a polymorphic > container - i.e.: > > > Does boost have any polymorphic containers? > > Thanks very much in advance. > > I don't think that polymorphism is the cure - you'll always need to downcast the pointer as the signatures differ. However, there is support in Boost for what you're trying to do - through boost::any. Like I said before, the solution will not be very clean, but it will work. The code snippet below seems to do what you're asking for: #include <iostream> #include <algorithm> #include <vector> #include <Boost\Any.hpp> class A { public: virtual void func1() { std::cout << "A::func1()\n"; }; }; class B : public A { public: void func1() { std::cout << "B::func1()\n"; }; void funcB() { std::cout << "B::funcB()\n"; }; }; class C : public A { public: void func1() { std::cout << "C::func1()\n"; }; void funcC() { std::cout << "C::funcC()\n"; }; }; typedef std::vector<boost::any> AnyVector; void DoStuffWithAny(boost::any& a) { // Try with a B if ( B* pB = boost::any_cast(&a) ) { pB->func1(); pB->funcB(); } // Try with a C else if ( C* pC = boost::any_cast<C>(&a) ) { pC->func1(); pC->funcC(); } // Try with an A else if ( A* pA = boost::any_cast<A>(&a) ) { pA->func1(); } } void DoStuffWithAnyPointer(boost::any& a) { // Try with a B if ( B** ppB = boost::any_cast<B*>(&a) ) { (*ppB)->func1(); (*ppB)->funcB(); } // Try with a C else if ( C** ppC = boost::any_cast<C*>(&a) ) { (*ppC)->func1(); (*ppC)->funcC(); } // Try with an A else if ( A** ppA = boost::any_cast<A*>(&a) ) { (*ppA)->func1(); } } int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { AnyVector aVector; A a; B b; C c; aVector.push_back(a); aVector.push_back(b); aVector.push_back(c); // Do interesting things std::for_each(aVector.begin(), aVector.end(), DoStuffWithAny); AnyVector anotherVector; anotherVector.push_back(new A); anotherVector.push_back(new B); anotherVector.push_back(new C); // Do interesting things std::for_each(anotherVector.begin(), anotherVector.end(), DoStuffWithAnyPointer); return 0; } Another approach would be to provide adapters, but I'm guessing that wouldn't be worth the trouble. HTH, Bjorn Karlsson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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Tokenizer
by Paul Grenyer 11 Dec '01

11 Dec '01

Hi All! I'm using tokenizer in a project. Is there a way to get the number of tokens that have been tokenized? Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer pjgrenyer(a)iee.org

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Boost.Threads Win32 Implementation
by bkarsjens 11 Dec '01

11 Dec '01

The first thing I discovered when trying to get threads working is that the -mthreads option was not being used in jam. I added the following to the gcc-tools.jam file. I'm not totally sure it's right -- it's needed for mingw32, but I don't know if it is necessary for cygwin. if $(NT) { flags gcc CFLAGS <threading>multi : -mthreads ; flags gcc LINKFLAGS <threading>multi : -mthreads ; } Adding that let's gdb actually work on it... It doesn't crash deep in the bowels of thread exiting in some kernel library routine. Although it still crashes in on_thread_exit doing handlers->push_front(func). Actually, it crashes in some STL stuff, but that's I'm not sure why, I'm not that good with gdb yet. After digging through the implementation of threadmon.cpp, I realized that (unless I missed something) on_thread_exit was always called with the same argument, which is the address of cleanup in tss.cpp. Therefore all of the stuff in threadmon.cpp for keeping a list of functions registered with on_thread exit were not really needed, it would always have a list of the same pointer. So why not just keep that pointer and call it on thread exit. I also discovered that DllMain wasn't getting called at all because it wasn't defined as extern "C". This drastically simplifies threadmon.cpp: // threadmon.cpp : Defines the entry point for the DLL application. // #define BOOST_THREADMON_EXPORTS #include "threadmon.hpp" #ifdef BOOST_HAS_WINTHREADS #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN // Exclude rarely-used stuff from Windows headers #include <windows.h> #ifdef BOOST_MSVC # pragma warning(disable : 4786) #endif typedef void (__cdecl * handler)(void); namespace { handler exit_handler; } #if defined(__BORLANDC__) #define DllMain DllEntryPoint #endif extern "C" BOOL APIENTRY DllMain(HANDLE module, DWORD reason, LPVOID) { switch (reason) { case DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH: case DLL_THREAD_ATTACH: break; case DLL_THREAD_DETACH: case DLL_PROCESS_DETACH: { if (exit_handler) (*exit_handler)(); } break; } return TRUE; } int on_thread_exit(void (__cdecl * func)(void)) { exit_handler = func; return 0; } #endif // BOOST_HAS_WINTHREADS Note that the above was not copied directly, but has had some editing. I think I transcribed it correctly, but maybe I missed a semicolon or something. Also, in tss.cpp, cleanup may be called without any handlers registered... I'm not sure if this was always the case, or if I introduced this case, so the cleanup function needs to do an if(handlers) check before actually trying to call them. And now the tests pass! Wheee! One more thing. I'm still not convinced for the need of the dll. The issue is needing to know when a thread has exited, and I think that could be done by an object that was destructed in a thread-proxy function. Since you are already using a thread_proxy function, I'm wondering if you considered this approach and if so, why you rejected it.

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RE: [Boost-Users] Re: operator<< for boost::any
by Björn Karlsson 11 Dec '01

11 Dec '01

> From: Patrick Guio [mailto:patrick.guio@fys.uio.no] > I have another comment more general about the any class > The declaration > placeholder * content; > in the any class might be public or private depending on the > value of the > value of the define BOOST_NO_MEMBER_TEMPLATE_FRIENDS. > Is it safe? No, it's not safe. It's there for a good reason though - some compilers does not support the (required) friend declaration. Bjorn Karlsson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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Re: operator<< for boost::any
by Patrick Guio 10 Dec '01

10 Dec '01

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, assaflavieatwork wrote: > If all you want to do is output the value inside the 'any' you can > add a virtual member to the place_holder/holder classes (inside any's > impl) that will output to a ostream&. That is exactly my need > in place_holder: > virtual ostream& write(ostream&) = 0; You mean placeholder? I have added this declaration as a pure virtual function in the queries part. class placeholder { ... public: // queries ... virtual ostream& write(ostream&) = 0; }; > in holder: > ostream& write(ostream& o) { o << held; }; > I have added the declaration in the derived class holder from the abstract base class placeholder template<typename ValueType> class holder : public placeholder { ... public: // queries ... ostream& write(std::ostream& os) { os << held; } public: // representation ValueType held; }; > outside any: > std::ostream& operator << (std::ostream& out, const any& value) { > return value.write(out); > }; I don't understand how this can work since the class any contains a pointer to an object of class placeholder. This object has a member function write but not the class any itself? I have another comment more general about the any class The declaration placeholder * content; in the any class might be public or private depending on the value of the value of the define BOOST_NO_MEMBER_TEMPLATE_FRIENDS. Is it safe? #ifndef BOOST_NO_MEMBER_TEMPLATE_FRIENDS private: // representation template<typename ValueType> friend ValueType * any_cast(any *); #else public: // representation (public so any_cast can be non-friend) #endif placeholder * content; }; > > But that of course means changing the any.hpp file which of course > isn't something everyone is willing to do... Why not including a simple overloading of the << operator? > > Anyway, it won't help you if you want to read the any back from an > istream. You'll have to write some type information to the stream or > else you'll just interpret everything as a string. > I understand that but that is not what I want to do. Sincerely Patrick Guio

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RE: [Boost-Users] Re: shared_ptr and inheritance
by Björn Karlsson 10 Dec '01

10 Dec '01

> From: rz0 [mailto:rz0@yahoo.com] > > > > > >VC++ 6.0 flags the above lines with a conversion error. > > > > > >Is there any way to resolve this? > > > > Can you just define b and c as boost::shared_ptr<A>? > > Hi Jon > > Thank you very much for the response. Unfortunately this will cause > the same problem that I ran into with std::auto_ptr and that is > methods funcB and funcC which are exclusive to B and C are not > allowed to be called. > > Take care > RZ > It seems to me that the problem is in the design - you're trying to use inheritance for the convenience of placeholding (and maybe insulation). That won't work (as you've seen). Even with a compiler that allows the code to compile (those that support member templates will) you will not get the behaviour that you want - funcB and funcC can never be called (from client code). The reason that the code compiles cleanly is that the conversion from B* or C* to A* is valid - but there's no way you can dynamically change the static type of "boost::shared_ptr<A> aptr;". If you really need to get this to work, it is still possible: You could use boost::any, and any_cast through all the possible types. This, however, is not very flexible, and IMO not very readable or maintainable. Regards, Bjorn Karlsson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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shared_ptr and inheritance
by rz0 10 Dec '01

10 Dec '01

Hello I have the following scenario: #include <iostream> #include <boost/smart_ptr.hpp> class A { public: virtual void func1() { std::cout << "A::func1" << std::endl; } }; class B : public A { public: void func1() { std::cout << "B::func1" << std::endl; } void funcB() { std::cout << "B::funcB" << std::endl; } }; class C : public A { public: void func1() { std::cout << "C::func1" << std::endl; } void funcC() { std::cout << "C::funcB" << std::endl; } }; class Holder { boost::shared_ptr<A> aptr; public: void setclass(boost::shared_ptr<A> a) { aptr = a; } void callfunc() { aptr->func1(); } }; int main() { Holder holder; boost::shared_ptr b(new B()); boost::shared_ptr<C> c(new C()); holder.setclass(b); //<------- holder.setclass(c); //<------- holder.callfunc(); return 0; } VC++ 6.0 flags the above lines with a conversion error. Is there any way to resolve this? Thanks very much in advance.

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Can't build Python-lib with VC
by swbuddy2001 08 Dec '01

08 Dec '01

Hi all, i'm trying to build the Boost-Python library (Version 1.26.0) with VS6 using SP6 and i get the following ErrorMsg. Compiling... types.cpp ..\..\..\boost/bind/mem_fn_template.hpp(135) : error C2562: '()' : 'void' function returning a value ..\..\..\boost/bind/mem_fn_template.hpp(133) : see declaration of '()' ..\..\..\boost/bind.hpp(735) : see reference to function template instantiation 'void __thiscall boost::_mfi::cmf1<void,class boost::python::detail::type_object_base,struct _object *>::operator () (class boost::python::detail::type_object_base *const & ,struct _object *) const' being compiled Any suggestions what i can do to get types.cpp compiled? Thanks in advance, Jürgen

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explanation about cyclic_ptr in smart_ptr
by ma_ting_chong 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

How do cyclic_ptr work in the smarttest.zip in smart_ptr library?

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Need Digest
by Daryle Walker 05 Dec '01

05 Dec '01

I guess Yahoo Groups had a data burp on 21 Nov 2001, because I didn't get digest 22. Could anyone send it to me? -- Daryle Walker Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie darylew AT mac DOT com

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OT: Is there a forum for Loki anywhere on the 'net?
by Gooch, Allen 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

I know that pieces of Loki are being reviewed for inclusion into Boost, but I was wondering if there is any sort of forum for questions regarding the use of Loki itself, specifically Loki::SmartPtr. Please respond by email to avoid list clutter, unless it relates to boost use. TIA, Allen Gooch

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Re: [Boost-Users] Re: Installing on Windows 95 with Mingw32 1.1
by John Maddock 02 Dec '01

02 Dec '01

>ISTR that when I tried to use boost.threads in the past on Win98, I >encountered problems with the TSS code as well - with MSVC. I didn't see the >page faults since a catch(...) handler on MSVC eats them but the results >were worse than that - the machine locked up in about half of the cases, in >the other half the thread that faulted died without warning. I haven't seen that. >I think that it's possible that the problem is not gcc-specific. Note that >both your successes use pthreads-win32, not the native win32 implementation >of Boost.Threads. the tests run fine using the win32 threads API as well (at least for me), the reason I used pthreads-win32 was to make the tests more directly comparable to cygwin (which has it's own pthreads API). - John Maddock http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/

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graph library compilation on VC++
by zhang3284＠yahoo.com 02 Dec '01

02 Dec '01

I'm new to BGL and studying the examples provided with the library. Here is a problem I'm having: I compiled a program, for example,dfs- example.cpp, it was fine. And then I changed the program a little bit, and tried to recompile it, I got the following error: boost\iterator_adaptors.hpp(845) : fatal error C1001: INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR Then I tried Rebuild All or cleaned the project first, and then compiled it. It became OK again. I'm using VC++ 6.0 SP5. Any comment would be appreciated. Thanks. Yingjun Zhang

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operator<< for boost::any
by Patrick Guio 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

Dear all, I am trying to use the any class in a project. I would need to print elements of a vector<any>. I have come to the following solution as an example: template<class T> inline ostream& operator<<(ostream &os, const vector<T> &v) { vector<T>::const_iterator iter(v.begin()); for (int c(0), n(v.size()); c<n-1; c++) os << *iter++ << ','; return os << *iter; } typedef vector<bool> vectb; int main() { vector<any> values; double f(2.0); string s("hello"); int i(100); bool b(false); vectb vectbool; vectbool.push_back(true); vectbool.push_back(false); vectbool.push_back(true); vectbool.push_back(true); vectbool.push_back(false); vectbool.push_back(true); values.push_back(f); values.push_back(s); values.push_back(i); values.push_back(b); values.push_back(vectbool); for (vector<any>::iterator i(values.begin()), last(values.end()); i!=last; i++) { if (any_cast<bool>(i)) cout << *any_cast<bool>(i) << endl; else if (any_cast<int>(i)) cout << *any_cast<int>(i) << endl; else if (any_cast<float>(i)) cout << *any_cast<float>(i) << endl; else if (any_cast<double>(i)) cout << *any_cast<double>(i) << endl; else if (any_cast<string>(i)) cout << *any_cast<string>(i) << endl; else if (any_cast<vectb>(i)) cout << *any_cast<vectb>(i) << endl; } } But I would like a more general solution without to make assumptions about the type. Do you have any ideas? Another point is that I cannot figure out how to convert the solution below in terms of a friend ostream& operator<<(ostream &os, const any &rhs) I cannot get this compiled with g++ v 2.95 friend ostream& operator<<(ostream &os, const any &rhs) { return os << *any_cast<bool>(rhs); } Sincerely, Patrick ====================================================================== Patrick Guio Institute of Physics, University of Oslo P.O. box 1048, Blindern, N-0316 Oslo Tel : (+47) 22 84 40 60 - Fax : (+47) 22 85 56 71 E-mail : patrick.guio(a)fys.uio.no URL : http://folk.uio.no/~patricg

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Re: Installing on Windows 95 with Mingw32 1.1
by John Maddock 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

>I got the command line gdb to run, but what a pain. I'm researching >both the GUI version as well as the JIT versions available for >mingw. They may help out. However, the command line version just >stranded me with no clear idea why things were failing, so I don't >know if the other debuggers will be much help. If it helps, I tried debugging the thread code with the latest cygwin GUI debugger (which is almost usable BTW), but still couldn't figure out what the issue was. I also tried with vc6+pthreads-win32 and Borland+pthreads-win32 and both of those check out OK, in the latter case I was able to build both boost.threads and pthreads-win32 with Borlands Codeguard support enabled, and there were no memory related errors, so I think this is something very specific to gcc. BTW I also see a page fault when building with gcc3.01 on Linux - this time the fault goes away if I build in release mode, so I suspect there is an assertion being triggered somewhere, and it's the assertion that's dying. I haven't got any further than that though. - John Maddock http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/

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Installing on Windows 95 with Mingw32 1.1
by karsjens+yahoo＠visionary.com 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

Since I had quite a bit of trouble getting started with boost, I though i would document my difficulties so the install process can be improved and other users having similar difficulties might benefit from my experience. I have placed my story on the boost wiki in the topic InstallingOnMingw32Windows95 Direct url: http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_ wiki/wiki.pl?InstallingOnMingw32Windows95 I hope this is helpful to somebody. -- Brad Karsjens

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regex and tokenizer, something wrong with namspace ?
by John Maddock 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

>I am a new user of the boost library (Actually with VC6 SP5 and stlport 4.0). Everything goes well when I use tokenizer and regexp in separated programs. But when I want to use the regex and the tokenizer library together I can not compile. for example, if I take the $(BOOST_ROOT)/libs/tokenizer/examples.cpp from John R. Bandela and just add the include line: #include <boost/regex.hpp> the compiler gives me this error: < regex and tokeniser appear to use different workarounds for the broken VC6 namespace support, and these seem to conflict, IMO regex is using the correct fix - or at least the one we discussed during the early days of boost, but then I would say that :-) - John Maddock http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/

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warning: unknown rule split
by John Merrells 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

I just downloaded boost and the jam.exe on the build page. Executing jam -ftools/build/allyoubase.jam -sTOOLS="msvc" on win2k with msvc 6 I get a screenful of 'warning: unknown rule split'. Anyone experienced this? jam version problem? John [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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RE: [Boost-Users] graph library
by Jim.Hyslop 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Ihsan Ali Al Darhi [SMTP:iad929@joinnet.com.jo] wrote: > Can someone of you point me to a good book or URL on graph theory? Ineed > this to understand the BGL. Please. I've found Robert Sedgewick's book "Algorithms in C++" to be quite useful. He has several chapters devoted to graph algorithms. He explains some of the basics, then demonstrates how to implement the algorithms. There are a lot of other algorithms covered as well (string processing, searching and sorting algorithms, geometric algorithms, and so on). -- Jim

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problem compiling boost.function w/ g++ 2.95.3
by Darin Buck 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

when trying to compile the following code (cut from the boost.function test suite): #include <boost/bind.hpp> #include <boost/function.hpp> #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <functional> struct X { X(int v) : value(v) {} int twice() const { return 2*value; } int plus(int v) { return value + v; } int value; }; int main() { using namespace boost; boost::function<int, X*> f1(&X::twice); X one(1); cout << "f1(one) = " << f1(&one) << endl; return 0; } _____________________________________________ i get the following errors: /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp: In function `static int boost::detail::function::function_obj_invoker1<int (X::*) () const,int,X *>::invoke(boost::detail::function::any_pointer, X *)': /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:689: instantiated from `boost::function1<int,X *,boost::empty_function_policy,boost::empty_function_mixin,allocator >::assign_to<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const, boost::detail::function::function_obj_tag)' /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:618: instantiated from `boost::function1<int,X *,boost::empty_function_policy,boost::empty_function_mixin,allocator >::assign_to<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const)' /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:463: instantiated from `boost::function1<int,X *,boost::empty_function_policy,boost::empty_function_mixin,allocator >::function1<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const)' /usr/local/include/boost/function.hpp:459: instantiated from `boost::function<int,X *,boost::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable, boost::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable,bo ost::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable,boos t::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable,boost: :detail::function::unusable>::function<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const)' hello.C:21: instantiated from here /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:272: pointer to member function called, but not in class scope /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:272: warning: control reaches end of non-void function `boost::detail::function::function_obj_invoker1<int (X::*)() const,int,X *>::invoke(boost::detail::function::any_pointer, X *)' /usr/local/include/g++-3/stl_alloc.h: At top level: /usr/local/include/g++-3/stl_alloc.h: In instantiation of `allocator<int (X::*)() const>': /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_base.hpp:131: instantiated from `boost::detail::function::functor_manager<int (X::*) () const,allocator<boost::function_base> >' /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:691: instantiated from `boost::function1<int,X *,boost::empty_function_policy,boost::empty_function_mixin,allocator >::assign_to<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const, boost::detail::function::function_obj_tag)' /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:618: instantiated from `boost::function1<int,X *,boost::empty_function_policy,boost::empty_function_mixin,allocator >::assign_to<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const)' /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:463: instantiated from `boost::function1<int,X *,boost::empty_function_policy,boost::empty_function_mixin,allocator >::function1<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const)' /usr/local/include/boost/function.hpp:459: instantiated from `boost::function<int,X *,boost::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable, boost::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable,bo ost::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable,boos t::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable,boost: :detail::function::unusable>::function<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const)' hello.C:21: instantiated from here /usr/local/include/g++-3/stl_alloc.h:750: `allocator<int (X::*)() const>::address(int (X::* &)() const) const' has already been declared in `allocator<int (X::*)() const>' make: *** [hello.o] Error 1 ___________________________________ this code should compile (its just copied from the test code) and my compiler setup should work according to the boost compiler status page. Any ideas what i'm doing wrong? -Darin Buck

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regex and tokenizer, something wrong with namspace ?
by acarsac＠yahoo.fr 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Hi, I am a new user of the boost library (Actually with VC6 SP5 and stlport 4.0). Everything goes well when I use tokenizer and regexp in separated programs. But when I want to use the regex and the tokenizer library together I can not compile. for example, if I take the $(BOOST_ROOT)/libs/tokenizer/examples.cpp from John R. Bandela and just add the include line: #include <boost/regex.hpp> the compiler gives me this error: Compiling... examples.cpp c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98 \include\boost\token_functions.hpp(264) : error C2668: 'ispunct' : ambiguous call to overloaded function c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98 \include\boost\token_functions.hpp(257) : while compiling class- template member function 'bool __thiscall boost::char_delimiters_separator<char,class _STL::char_traits<char> >::is_ret(char) const' Error executing cl.exe. examples.exe - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s) any idees ? Alexandre

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Typelists.
by jamescurran＠mvps.org 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Over on the Boost Developer group, there a lot of talk about how to best implement a typelist. Just so I can follow that discussion, could someone give me the basic thumbnail sketch of what exactly a typelist is, and what they are used for?

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Real-world applications using Boost - results
by Björn Karlsson 27 Nov '01

27 Nov '01

I recently posted a question about "real-world" use of Boost. The (surprisingly few) answers I received can be found at the end of the e-mail. I think it is safe to say that the usage is more widely spread than the answers indicate. [Note: I have excluded the names from the e-mails, although not explicitly asked to do so.] Summary: There were replies from 8 Boosters. It seems that the lightweight utility classes are the most popular, likely due to the fact that their impact on existing systems is easily manageable. Thank you for your answers! Bjorn Karlsson Reply ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Using some small parts of it. Selected because it lets you pick and chose things to use from a large set of (relatively) small components/tools rather than ending up "buying into" some grand scheme of things. Well designed small interfaces rather than including the kitchen sink, making it easier for people to pick up/maintain code later.... Did what I needed to do at the time.... Note that the things I have elected to use so far have been small and intended to reduce the risk of mistakes (eg operators, traits) rather than anything vast. Reply [translated] ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// We have just started to use Boost for converting a Python prototype to C++. The experience is still limited, but the results after a few days of work are very good. Reply ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I'm using Boost heavily in FEMTown (www.femtown.org) FEMTown is an open-source finite-element framework in development. We're using Boost because it provides stable and slim functionality that helps us making FEMTown more efficient, flexible and robust. (although our choice of C++ for a scientific application is even kinda controversial) Reply ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// At this moment, I'm using the Boost lexical_cast in one of our commercial software products (Pilot - see http://www.leitch.com/custserv/products.nsf/lookup/CCS-PILOT) I needed to convert from integers to text for transmission across the network, then back from text to integer value. I had been using strstream, but the lexical_cast wrapped all the complexity up for me. I chose Boost because it's portable (our software runs on Windows NT and on embedded software using gcc). I knew there is a good chance that lexical_cast will become a standard keyword. As I learn more about the various libraries that are available, I will likely find appropriate places to use them. Reply ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// My group is currently using Boost on one project as an experiment. We do cross-platform Macintosh/Windows development and it was valuable to have a tested library that worked on our two main development platforms. We have been phasing different parts of Boost in as come across problems that Boost will solve. As a community I find Boost a source of best practices that I have tried to implement in our workplace. Reply ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// We've been using Boost at Zetec for over two years. Initially just for shared_ptr, but since expanding to lexical_cast, iterator_adaptors, tokenizer, and others. If you need any other info, let me know. Reply ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I am starting a new project using boost. It is a financial risk-management engine. I cannot tell you a lot about it yet. We are a team of 8 developers, 4 developing the backend and 4 developing the interfaces. The product will hopefully be a big success in the financial world as it is developed in cooperation with some the best people of the financial industry. It is a 12 months development effort using the XP development process. boost will be used to provide some utility classes (smart pointers, anys, threads ... ). The engine will run on Solaris and Linux. A future version on Windows may exist in the future. Reply ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// We've used small parts of Boost in a digital video distribution back-end system; the system was developed by a client of us(us=CMG). If you want names in your summary I'd have to ask for permissions from them.

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