-----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Winkler [mailto:Benjamin.Winkler@RWTH-Aachen.de] Sent: 07 June 2006 22:20 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: [Boost-users] Boost.Signals: strange bug in example program

Hi,

I just downloaded the newest boost library 1.33.1 and compiled the "maximum.cpp" example from the Signals library, which goes like this:

#include <algorithm> #include <iostream> #include

template<typename T> struct maximum { typedef T result_type;

template<typename InputIterator> T operator()(InputIterator first, InputIterator last) const { if (first == last) throw std::runtime_error("Cannot compute maximum of zero elements!"); return *std::max_element(first, last); } };

int main() { boost::signal2 sig_max; sig_max.connect(std::plus<int>()); sig_max.connect(std::multiplies<int>()); sig_max.connect(std::minus<int>()); sig_max.connect(std::divides<int>());

std::cout << sig_max(5, 3) << std::endl; // prints 15

return 0; }

As stated, the correct result would be 15 but the output really is 8. However, when I print the values via std::copy(first, last, std::ostream_iterator<T>(std::cout, " ")); I get "8 15 2 1 ", which means that the values are calculated correctly.

This error occurs with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (8.0) as well as MinGW >3.4.2. I even tried replacing std::max_element() with my own function, which expectedly didn't help.

Seems like a bug to me, but I can't track it down. Could it be some issue >with copying the iterator?

Benjamin Winkler

Hello, I tried to run this example and I got the same results, it prints 8 on Microsoft Visual studio 2003 (7.1) as well. I did try to debug it and ended up in "algorithm" file: After adding cout: template<class _FwdIt> inline _FwdIt _Max_element(_FwdIt _First, _FwdIt _Last) { // find largest element, using operator< _DEBUG_RANGE(_First, _Last); _FwdIt _Found = _First; cout<<*_Found<