Thanks for the message Joaquin! I am running the boost invariant checks for multi-index and something which took a minute is now taking a full day to run. Any how, I haven't had any of the assertions fail in 5 iterations which completed so far and I have moved to version 1.57.0 Will get back if I see any issues with this again. On Thursday, 13 November 2014 10:30 PM, "boost-users-request@lists.boost.org" wrote: Send Boost-users mailing list submissions to boost-users@lists.boost.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to boost-users-request@lists.boost.org You can reach the person managing the list at boost-users-owner@lists.boost.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Boost-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: [Mutli-Index, InterProcess] Multi-index stability issue with interprocess? (Joaquin M Lopez Munoz) 2. [Graph] A* with heterogeneous heuristics (Sensei) 3. 1.57.0 link errors (missing ctor/dtor for boost::archive::detail::shared_ptr_helper) (David Abdurachmanov) 4. [BGL] Shortest-Path subject to length constraint (Yun Liu) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:41:08 +0000 (UTC) From: Joaquin M Lopez Munoz To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Mutli-Index, InterProcess] Multi-index stability issue with interprocess? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 vibhor aggarwal writes:

I am creating a multi-index [...] and storing that in a managed memory mapped file (boos::interprocess) [...] All the data is first inserted into the multi-index once and then it is read from the muti-index with a query [...]

boost::tie(l, u) = m_p_mi_ts->get<0>(). equal_range(boost::make_tuple(i, j));

We are testing this whole process over and over again (each iteration is a new run of the process), and once in every 50 or so iterations we get a segment fault inside boost on firing the query. Here is the boost part of the stack from the core dump:

With so little information, I can only guess: the crash is hapenning at a very superficial level into equal_range, namely when dereferencing the container's header node (the top of the rb-tree ordered indices are based on). This suggests that the container layout is seriously screwed; possible reasons: * Memory overwrites from some adjacent structure * File corruption (?) * m_p_mi has been changed somewhere * Some sort of overrun within the memory-mapped file It'd be best if you could provide a testing case for this or some more context. If this is not an option, you can activate Boost.MultiIndex invariant-checking mode: http://www.boost.org/libs/multi_index/doc/tutorial /debug.html#invariant_check which will assert as soon as some internal corruption is detected (caveat: this mode will reduce performance drastically). Joaqu?n M L?pez Mu?oz Telef?nica ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:41:32 +0100 From: Sensei To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: [Boost-users] [Graph] A* with heterogeneous heuristics Message-ID: <546498EC.6070204@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Dear all, I haven't given up in trying to implement an A* algorithm with BGL. My problem is theoretically simple, as in some previous posts. Given a graph of letters, and a word, find the path in the graph that minimizes the distance between the letters of the word and the nodes in the graph. It's best to show an example: /* * B H * / \ / * A---D---F---G---I * \ /\ * C E * * input: A E I O U * result: A D F G I */ With that graph, my heuristic should take into account not just the letter in the graph per se, but the *corresponding* one in the input word. So, starting with "AEIOU" the search will: - expand A (A in **A**EIOU) - find B, C, D - expand D (closest to E in A**E**IOU) - find D, F - expand F (closest to I in AE**I**OU) - find G - expand G (only one, closest to O in AEI**O**U) - find H, I - expand U (closest to U in AEIO**U**) This settings could also be more complicated, adding weights to edges, but for now I am happy with this problem. What I've done now? Implementing my own A* algorithm, by hand. Of course this might work, but I'd prefer using BGL's facilities. I must say that I am quite confused about BGL's data structures, as for instance in the A* cities example (1), we need to create a weight map, so what if I don't need weights? Moreover, predecessors and distances are instantiated with a std::vector, but what happens if I need to operate on a very large graph, for instance 200M nodes? Moreover, what will happen when I will distribute the graph over a cluster with Boost Parallel Graph? ... Ok maybe this is too ahead of the time! :) Basically, I'd need to replicate my A* ugly by-hand implementation with custom visitors and custom heuristics. Below you may find my failed attempt. I need some help with this, because I find the documentation a little bit hard to understand, especially when some newbie like me approaches Boost :) Failures in my code: I can't get to define a non-weighted graph, and the call to the A* search is cryptic: I don't have weights. Should I define fake ones for instance all equal to 1? I really hope you guys can help me in this, my code works, but using BGL would be best! Thanks! (1) http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_57_0/libs/graph/example/astar-cities.cpp #include <iostream> #include #include <vector> #include <string> #include <utility> #include #include #include #include typedef boost::adjacency_list graph; typedef boost::graph_traits<graph>::edge_iterator edge_iterator; // Custom A* heuristic template class bestmatch_heuristic : public boost::astar_heuristic { public: typedef typename boost::graph_traits<Graph>::vertex_descriptor Vertex; bestmatch_heuristic() { }; CostType operator()(Vertex u) { std::cout << ">>>> h(" << u << ") = " << 1 << std::endl; return 1; } private: }; // Used to end the A* search algorithm struct end_astar { }; // Custom A* visitor template <class Vertex> class bestmatch_visitor : public boost::default_astar_visitor { public: bestmatch_visitor(Vertex goal) : destination_(goal) { }; template<class Graph> void discover_vertex(Vertex u, const Graph &g) { std::cout << "discover " << u << std::endl; } template <class Graph> void examine_vertex(Vertex u, Graph& g) { std::cout << "examine " << u << std::endl; if (u == destination_) throw end_astar(); } private: Vertex destination_; }; int main() { /* * B H * / \ / * A---D---F---G---I * \ /\ * C E * * input: A E I O U * result: A D F G I */ std::unordered_map letters; auto getletter = [](std::size_t i) -> char { return 'A' + i; }; for (int i = 'A'; i <= 'I'; i++) letters[i] = i - 'A'; graph g; boost::add_edge(letters['A'], letters['B'], g); boost::add_edge(letters['A'], letters['C'], g); boost::add_edge(letters['A'], letters['D'], g); boost::add_edge(letters['B'], letters['D'], g); boost::add_edge(letters['C'], letters['D'], g); boost::add_edge(letters['D'], letters['E'], g); boost::add_edge(letters['D'], letters['F'], g); boost::add_edge(letters['F'], letters['G'], g); boost::add_edge(letters['G'], letters['H'], g); boost::add_edge(letters['G'], letters['I'], g); edge_iterator ei, ee; for (boost::tie(ei, ee) = boost::edges(g); ei != ee; ei++) { std::cout << getletter(boost::source(*ei, g)) << " -> " << getletter(boost::target(*ei, g)) << std::endl; } // Heuristics bestmatch_heuristic h; // Predecessors std::vectorgraph::vertex_descriptor p(boost::num_vertices(g)); try { #if 0 boost::astar_search_tree(// Graph g, // Start node letters['A'], // Heuristics bestmatch_heuristic(), // Predecessor map boost::predecessor_map(boost::make_iterator_property_map(p.begin(), boost::get(boost::vertex_index, g)))); #endif } catch (end_astar e) { } } ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:07:07 +0100 From: David Abdurachmanov To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Cc: amey@rrsd.com Subject: [Boost-users] 1.57.0 link errors (missing ctor/dtor for boost::archive::detail::shared_ptr_helper) Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, I am moving to Boost 1.57.0 and having issues with some code related to serialization. https://github.com/cms-sw/cmssw/blob/CMSSW_7_3_X/CondFormats/Serialization/i... https://github.com/cms-sw/cmssw/blob/CMSSW_7_3_X/CondFormats/Serialization/i... In both cases the problem is here: #if BOOST_VERSION >= 103500 #include #endif [snip] #if BOOST_VERSION >= 103500 // mix-in helper class for serializing shared_ptr , public boost::archive::detail::shared_ptr_helper #endif A similar (or the same) problem is reported here: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Serialization-link-error-in-1-56-td466683... It seems that ctor/dtor are not exported anymore: /testSerializationDQMObjects.o: In function `eos::portable_oarchive::portable_oarchive(std::ostream& , unsigned int)': testSerializationDQMObjects.cpp:(.text._ZN3eos17portable_oarchiveC2ERSoj[_ZN3eos17portable_oarchiveC5ERSoj]+0x54): undefined reference to `boost::archive::detail::shared_ptr_helper: :shared_ptr_helper()' testSerializationDQMObjects.cpp:(.text._ZN3eos17portable_oarchiveC2ERSoj[_ZN3eos17portable_oarchiveC5ERSoj]+0x1c1): undefined reference to `boost::archive::detail::shared_ptr_helper ::~shared_ptr_helper()' boost::serialization::shared_ptr_helper does not seem to be a drop-in replacement at first look. There is also 'shared_ptr_helper_base', but is only available in the implementation file. Is such mix-in class still available in a new Boost version? Thanks, david