Matt Schuckmann wrote:
At some point many of my applications that use the boost.program_options libraries started crashing when they attempt to print the options descriptions i.e. cout << opt_desc;
I believe the problem started when we upgraded to boost 1.33.1 from 1.32.0 and were using MSVC 7.1. I'm not trying to figure out the problem using boost 1.33.1 using MSVC 8.0.
Here is the deal if I run the debug version of one of my apps with the standard --help option it runs fine. If I run the release version part of the help message is displayed but then the application crashes
If I attempt to debug the problem by launching the debug version of application from the MS debugger I get a debug assertion failed in xstring in a _SCL_SECURE_VALIDATE_RANGE check on operator += (basically the new secure checked iterators MS had introduced are complaining about an out of range iterator). Looking at the call stack the problem stemmed from line 361 of options_description.cpp (the format_paragraph function).
That specific issue is fixed in CVS HEAD (and RC_1_34_0) quite some time ago. Can you try that version and let me know if the problem is gone? - Volodya