On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Christian Henning <chhenning@gmail.com> wrote:

This following code sample will crash the MS compiler version 8. I hope there are some MS folks reading this mailing list, since I have no idea where else to post this.

#include <boost/bind.hpp>

struct A { void operator() () { boost::bind( &A::lookup, *this, unsigned char() )(); }

void lookup( unsigned char& c ) {} };

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { A()();

return 0; }

I know the code is not suppose to compile. Uncommenting the this pointer in the bind construct will make the code compile fine.

MSVC 8 has several similar crashes. At least it does not crash if you feed it valid C++ :) Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode

There's an issue with pointer to member functions. Here's what I've traced boost bind error to: template<class F> void g(F f){}; struct S { void m(){}; }; int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { S s; g(s.*&S::m); return 0; } Here's a looking like legal code that fails to compile with the same crash: class foo; template<int(foo::*)()> struct bar{}; class foo { virtual int method(){} bar<&foo::method> foobar; };