I believe that this has been fixed in more recent versions.  Also for 1.42 changes have been made to minimize warnings.  Test programs are now compiled at level 4 in MSVC.
 
Robert Ramey
 
Avi Bahra wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I had the same problem...
>>
>> This problem was fixed in the next release (1.40)
>> Regards,
>> Damien.
>
> Ok I tried this and found:
>
> a/  whereas 1.39 serialisation compiles with out _any_ warnings.
>      1.40 has a _blizzard_ sorry I meant avalanche of warnings
>       on building boost and on my application of the kind:
>           
> /var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_40_0/boost/archive/basic_binary_oarchive.hpp:88:
> warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions 
>      This makes it extremely difficult to see my own warnings.
>      Is 1.40 really production quality ?
>      We have a policy of no warnings, so the obvious question now,
>      is what release are these warning's fixed ?
>
> b/ Still get the same crash on program exit.
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0xb7ce3a08 in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xb7ce3a08 in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1  0x083c814d in
> boost::serialization::extended_type_info::key_unregister ()
> #2  0x083c8407 in
> boost::serialization::extended_type_info::~extended_type_info ()
> #3  0x081bf8cc in ~extended_type_info_typeid (this=0x8789604) at
> /var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_40_0/boost/serialization/extended_type_info_typeid.hpp:80
> #4  0x081bf98e in ~singleton_wrapper (this=0x8789604) at
> /var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_40_0/boost/serialization/singleton.hpp:104
> #5  0x0819f508 in __tcf_25 () at
> /var/tmp/ma0/boost/boost_1_40_0/boost/serialization/singleton.hpp:121
> #6  0xb7ca3599 in exit () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #7  0xb7c8cfe8 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #8  0x08053921 in _start ()
>
>   Oh well! I will have to go back placing all the serialisation in
> one translation unit
> and stick with 1.39.
>
>   Best regards,
> Ta,
>    Avi
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