[Boost-users] xpressive: sregex_token_iterator assertion

4 Jun 2008

      Hi, folks!

This program suprises me by causing a runtime assertion:

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#include <string>
#include <boost/xpressive/xpressive.hpp>

using namespace boost::xpressive;

int main()
{
  std::string x("a\tb\tc");

  sregex_token_iterator   cur(x.begin(), x.end(), as_xpr("\t"), -1),
                          end;
  for(; cur != end; ++cur)
   ;
}
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...the assertion:

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suprise: 
/usr/local/include/boost-1_35/boost/xpressive/detail/utility/tracking_ptr.hpp:196: 
void boost::xpressive::detail::enable_reference_tracking<Derived>::release() 
[with Derived = 
boost::xpressive::detail::regex_impl<__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<const char*, 
std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > >]: 
Assertion `0 < this->cnt_' failed.
Aborted
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Changing the declarations like this causes it to work as I expect:

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  sregex tab_delim(as_xpr("\t"));
  sregex_token_iterator   cur(x.begin(), x.end(), tab_delim, -1),
                          end;
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...maybe there's some "temporary" magic happening, or that I was just plain 
doing something I shouldn't have been doing (silly me!), or both? Could anyone 
comment on what's happening?

[Note: Boost 1.35, OpenSuSE 10.3, g++ 4.1.2]

Thanks!

_Jesse Williamson ;-};