Re: [Boost-users] [program_options] seg fault on ppc64 / linux /gcc 3.4.4

23 Aug 2005

      Liam Routt wrote:
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Peter Dimov wrote:
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I think that it would be better to use a 32 bit count instead, as in
the patch below (int is 32-bit under both PPC32 and PPC64, right?)
Surely we have some sort of "bit-sized" basic types? I'm new to Boost,
but we've had typedefs in our own project for as long as we've been
using C++...
We have , yes, although in this specific case I think I 
want just

#if INT_MAX >= 0x7FFFFFFF

typedef int count_type;

#else

typedef long count_type;

#endif

I'll fix this for 1.34. In the meantime, ...
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Either way, please let us know whether one or both of these changes
resolve the issue, so that we can put the fix in 1.33.1, if one is
released.
Both patches allow us to pass the entire suite on the PPC64/Linux/gcc
combo.
Any suggestion which I should apply locally to allow us to proceed?
... the 'int' patch seems to be the way to go. 'ld*' might not work on 
PPC32, and 64 bits are an overkill for the reference count, anyway.
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Are there more parts of the test suite that we should run?
You may want to try shared_ptr_mt_test and weak_ptr_mt_test, if you haven't 
already. These aren't being run by default.