2015-01-30 14:08 GMT+03:00 Attila Rajmund Nohl <attila.r.nohl@gmail.com>:

Hello!

I'm using boost-1.55 on Linux. When I run a specific testcase, I get
an abort at line 207 in the visitation_impl.hpp file. The comment says
that "should never be here at runtime". Unfortunately I don't really
understand under what circumstances could runtime end up here - could
someone explain how? The variant has a recursive element, i.e. looks
something like this:

struct Resp;

struct SR {
}

struct AR {
std::vector<Resp> resp;
}

typedef variant< SR, recursive_wrapper<AR> > RMType;

struct Resp {
RMType rm;
}

Could you please provide a full source code reproducing the error.

Otherwise it's extremely hard to examine the issue.

> "should never be here at runtime"
It means that internal state of variant was broken and the variant variable does not know any more what type does it hold. Usually this means that something really wrong was done with the variant variable:

# 1

boost::variant<int, std::string, float> v;

std::memset(&v, 120, sizeof(v)); // corrupting data

boost::get<int>(v); // assertion "should never be here at runtime"

# 2

boost::variant<int, std::string, float>* v; // uninitialized pointer

boost::get<int>(*v); // assertion "should never be here at runtime"

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Best regards,
Antony Polukhin