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[boost.thread] Documentation code error
by Philip Bennefall 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Hello, In the chapter about synchronization in the boost.thread documentation, where the hello world example with the bank account is being shown, I see a small problem in the class: int GetBalance() { mtx_.lock(); int b = balance_; mtx_.unlock(); return balance_; } I believe it should be: int GetBalance() { mtx_.lock(); int b = balance_; mtx_.unlock(); return b; } Kind regards, Philip Bennefall

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Re: [boost] Help in setupping regression tests on ARM
by Antony Polukhin 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Now it fails with the following error: # Running Boost.Build tests # Using bjam binary in '/home/pi/boost_maintain/run_trunk/tools_bjam/bin.linuxarm' # Getting test case results out of "/home/pi/boost_maintain/run_trunk/results/bjam.log"... terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid Aborted Traceback (most recent call last): File "run.py", line 60, in <module> runner(root) File "/home/pi/boost_maintain/run_trunk/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line 205, in __init__ self.main() File "/home/pi/boost_maintain/run_trunk/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line 566, in main getattr(self,action_m)() File "/home/pi/boost_maintain/run_trunk/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line 531, in command_regression self.command_test() File "/home/pi/boost_maintain/run_trunk/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line 333, in command_test self.command_test_process() File "/home/pi/boost_maintain/run_trunk/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line 393, in command_test_process self.regression_log ) File "/home/pi/boost_maintain/run_trunk/tools_regression/xsl_reports/utils/checked_system.py", line 21, in checked_system raise Exception( 'Command sequence "%s" failed with return code %d' % ( commands, rc ) ) Exception: Command sequence "['"/home/pi/boost_maintain/run_trunk/tools_regression/build/bin/gcc-4.6/release/process_jam_log" "/home/pi/boost_maintain/run_trunk/results" <"/home/pi/boost_maintain/run_trunk/results/bjam.log"']" failed with return code 34304 Any ideas how to fix it? -- Best regards, Antony Polukhin

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[detail][lightweight_test.hpp] Proposal to add BOOST_TEST_THROWS to boost/detail/lightweight_test.hpp
by Ion Gaztañaga 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Hi, In my tests I use boost/detail/lightweight_test.hpp as it has nearly all I need to test my libraries with very little overhead. However I needed a simple utility to check if an expression throws an exception and I think it can be added to this header with very little code. See attached patch. Do you find this a good idea? Ok to commit? Best, Ion

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comparing-the-c-standard-and-boost
by Neal Becker 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

http://slashdot.org/topic/bi/comparing-the-c-standard-and-boost/

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Re: [boost] [type_traits] Some traits are missing
by Antony Polukhin 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

2013/2/28 John Maddock <boost.regex(a)virgin.net>: >> I've created ticket https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8189 >> I can take care of it, so may I commit to trunk to type_triats directly? > > > OK sure, go for it. All the regression tests passed well, documentation updated. Boost.Variant was moved to new type trait and works well (not committed to trunk yet). If all the changes are OK, please merge type traits it to release branch and close #8189. -- Best regards, Antony Polukhin

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Re: [boost] "Re: boost_svn_expor"
by DongInn Kim 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

Hi Rene, I am sorry for answering late. I did not know that I disabled receiving the boost mails. > It runs as part of the testing process if a tester has configured things to > not use the svn client directly. Disabling it causes some testers to stop > working. I don't know what the problem is with the cpu usage though as it > should be a rarely executed program as there are a small number of testers > and this would run only a small number of times in a day. > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:37 PM, DongInn Kim <dikim_at_[hidden]> wrote: > > I disabled the script /home/grafik/ > > www.boost.org/boost_svn_export_archive.sh for now. I have no idea what > > invokes the script but it seems that I could not find any troubles with the > > disabled script. > > > > Please let me know if you find anything wrong with the boost web services > > including the svn service. > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > - DongInn > > > Can you tell me exactly what your test program does? It clearly invoked 4 or 5 apache processes which used almost all the resources. Does it create the 4 ~ 5 apache processes whenever you run the test program? Did you or your cronjob run it at that time? How could it run? Regards, -- - DongInn

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Review Wizard Status Report for March 2013
by Ronald Garcia 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

============================================== Review Wizard Status Report for March 2013 ============================================== News ==== 1. Boost 1.52.0 Released. No New Libraries. 2. Boost 1.53.0 Released. New Libraries: Atomic, Coroutine, Lockfree, Multiprecision, Odeint. Open Issues =========== The following libraries have review managers, but have not yet been scheduled for review: * Range Extensions - added May 2012; review manager: Neil Groves. The following libraries have been reviewed and await reports from their review managers: * Predef - reviewed February 2012; review manager: Joel Falcou. The following libraries have been accepted to Boost, but have not yet been submitted to SVN: * Constrained Value - accepted September 2010; author: Robert Kawulak. * GIL.IO - accepted January 2011; author: Christian Henning. * Contract - accepted September 2012; author: Lorenzo Caminiti. The following libraries have been accepted and submitted to SVN, but have not yet appeared in a release: * Type Traits Introspection - accepted August 2011; author: Edward Diener. * Type Erasure - accepted August 2012; author: Steven Watanabe The following libraries have been accepted provisionally to Boost, but have not been submitted for mini-review and full acceptance: * Endian - accepted provisionally November 2011; author: Beman Dawes. * Log - accepted provisionally March 2010; author: Andrey Semashev. General Announcements ===================== As always, we need experienced review managers. Please take a look at the list of libraries in need of managers and check out their descriptions. In general review managers are active boost participants, including library contributors, infrastructure contributors, and other mailing list participants with a substantial track record of constructive participation. If you can serve as review manager for any of them, email Ron Garcia or John Phillips, "rxg at cs dot cmu dot edu" and "phillips at pacific dot mps dot ohio-state dot edu" respectively. We are also suffering from a lack of reviewers. While we all understand time pressures and the need to complete paying work, the strength of Boost is based on the detailed and informed reviews submitted by you. If you are interested in reviewing a library but won't have time during the review period, you can always prepare your review ahead of time. No rule says you can only work on a review during the review period. A link to this report will be posted to www.boost.org. If you would like us to make any modifications or additions to this report, please email Ron or John. The review schedule is an unordered list of the libraries awaiting review. As such, any library on the schedule can be reviewed once the developer is ready, a review manager has been secured, and the manager, developer, and wizards agree on a date to schedule the review. Review Schedule =============== * Join (M) * Pimpl (M) * Sorting (M) * Quaternions, Vectors, Matrices (M) * Variadic Macro Data (M) * Block Pointer (M) * Singularity (M) * Extended Complex Numbers (M) * Metaparse (M) * Range Extensions * Nowide (M) * Array (M) * TypeIndex (M) * STL Extensions (M) * Countertree (M) * Process (M) ``(M)`` marks libraries that need review managers. -------------------- Join ---- :Author: Yigong Liu :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://channel.sourceforge.net/ :Description: Join is an asynchronous, message based C++ concurrency library based on join calculus. It is applicable both to multi-threaded applications and to the orchestration of asynchronous, event-based applications. It follows Comega's design and implementation and builds with Boost facilities. It provides a high level concurrency API with asynchronous methods, synchronous methods, and chords which are "join-patterns" defining the synchronization, asynchrony, and concurrency. Pimpl ----- :Author: Vladimir Batov :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/boost-vault/Miscellaneous/blob/master/Pimpl.zip :Description: The Pimpl idiom is a simple yet robust technique to minimize coupling via the separation of interface and implementation and then implementation hiding. This library provides a convenient yet flexible and generic deployment technique for the Pimpl idiom. It's seemingly complete and broadly applicable, yet minimal, simple and pleasant to use. Sorting ------- :Author: Steven Ross :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/boost-vault/Sorting :Description: A grouping of 3 templated hybrid radix/comparison-based sorting algorithms that provide superior worst-case and average-case performance to std::sort: integer_sort, which sorts fixed-size data types that support a rightshift (default of >>) and a comparison (default of <) operator. float_sort, which sorts standard floating-point numbers by safely casting them to integers. string_sort, which sorts variable-length data types, and is optimized for 8-bit character strings. All 3 algorithms have O(n(k/s + s)) runtime where k is the number of bits in the data type and s is a constant, and limited memory overhead (in the kB for realistic inputs). In testing, integer_sort varies from 35% faster to 2X as fast as std::sort, depending on processor, compiler optimizations, and data distribution. float_sort is roughly 70% faster than std::sort. string_sort is roughly 2X as fast as std::sort. Quaternions, Vectors, Matrices ------------------------------ :Author: Emil Dotchevski :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://www.revergestudios.com/boost-qvm/ :Description: QVM defines a set of generic functions and operator overloads for working with quaternions, vectors and matrices of static size. The library also defines vector and matrix data types, however it allows users to introduce their own types by specializing the q_traits, v_traits and m_traits templates. Variadic Macro Data ------------------- :Author: Edward Diener :Review Manager: Needed :Download: `Boost Sandbox <http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/variadic_macro_data/>`__ :Description: This library adds support and functionality for variadic macros to Boost as well as integrating variadic macros with the Boost PP library without changing the latter library in any way. Block Pointer ------------- :Author: Phil Bouchard :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/block_ptr/ :Description: Deterministic memory manager of constant complexity capable of handling cyclic collections. Singularity ----------- :Author: Ben Robinson :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/cppmaven/Singularity :Description: The Singularity Design Pattern allows you to restrict any class to a single instance. Unlike the infamous Singleton, Singularity gives you direct control over the lifetime of the object, does not require you to grant global access to the object, nor does it limit you to the default constructor for that object. Extended Complex Numbers ------------------------ :Author: Matthieu Schaller :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://code.google.com/p/cpp-imaginary-numbers/ :Description: The library is an extension of the std::complex class addressing two issues: 1. The standard does not guaranty the behaviour of the complex class if instantiated with types other than float/double/long double. 2. Some calculation where pure imaginary numbers (i.e. multiples of sqrt(-1)) appear are unnecessarily slowed down due to the lack of support for these numbers. The code I submit contains two interleaved classes boost::complex and boost::imaginary which can be instantiated with any type T provided T overloads the usual arithmetic operators and some basic (real) mathematical functions depending on which complex function will be used. It is thus an extended version of Thorsten Ottosen's n1869 proposal (http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2005/n1869.html) Metaparse --------- :Author: Abel Sinkovics :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://abel.web.elte.hu/metaparse/metaparse.zip :Description: Metaparse is a library for constructing parsers parsing at compile-time based on template metaprogramming. The parsers built with the library take boost::mpl::strings as input and can produce - types - objects (types with public static members) - callable C++ functions (types with public static method) - template metafunction classes as output (based on the input being parsed). On compilers supporting constexpr the library provides the following syntactic sugar for writing the input of the parsers: BOOST_STRING("this is a string") The library can be used for implementing DSLs in C++, including DSLs making C++ template metaprogramming easier (see examples). Range Extensions ---------------- :Author: Akira Takahashi :Review Manager: Neil Groves :Download: https://github.com/faithandbrave/OvenToBoost :Description: This project adds some features of the Oven Range Library to Boost.Range. Features: - Additional Range Adaptors (taken, taken_while, dropped, dropped_while, elements, elements_key, memoized, outdirected) - Extensions for using Lambda (regular function, regular operator) - Infinite Range (iteration function) - and additional range utilities. Nowide ------ :Author: Artyom Beilis :Review Manager: Needed :Download: http://cppcms.com/files/nowide/ :Description: This library makes cross platform Unicode aware programming easier. It provides an implementation of standard C and C++ library functions, such that their inputs are UTF-8 aware on Windows without requiring to use Wide API. Array ----- :Author: Brian Smith :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/BrianJSmith/Array :Description: The array class is a C++11 compatible implementation of static multidimensional arrays. TypeIndex --------- :Author: Antony Polukhin :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/apolukhin/type_index :Description: TypeIndex is an extended C++11 type_index library, that * works with disabled RTTI * can store const-volatile-reference info about types (if user requested it) * has all the functionality of std::type_index * has portable across compilers and platforms functionality for getting demangled type names * works across modules/shared libraries * does not require C++11 to work STL Extensions -------------- :Author: Vadim Stadnik :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://github.com/vstadnik/stl_ext_adv_review :Description: The proposed library [stl_ext_adv] offers augmented array based B+ trees and STL containers that support the interfaces of the C++03 sequences and associative containers. The library offers a number of extensions and performance improvements that are not available in C++03 and C++11 standard containers. Countertree ----------- :Author: Francisco Jose Tapia :Review Manager: Needed :Download: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8437476/works/countertree_code_doc.zip :Description: This library is an implementation of a binary red-black counter tree. This tree have an additional counter in each leaf. This permit the access to the elements by the position, like in a vector. It is a random access container with random access iterators. COUNTERTREE This kind of trees have an additional counter in each leaf. This permit the access to the elements by the position, like in a vector. It is a random access container with random access iterators. With unordered information we have a vector with the same speed inserting and deleting in any position (O(log N)). With ordered information, we have the classes set, multiset, map and multimap, with identical interface than the STL classes, with the plus of access to the elements by position, like in a vector. The iterators are random access , and you can subtract them. SUBALLOCATOR The suballocator is a layer between the allocator and the data structures, compatible with any allocator with the STL definition. The suballocator replace to the allocator in the allocation of equal size elements. It provides speed, return the unused memory and decrease the memory used by the program and improve the cache performance due to the data locality improvement ( 30% of improvement of speed respect the std::allocator with GCC 4.7) Process ------- :Author: Boris Schaeling :Download: http://www.highscore.de/boost/process0.5/process.zip :Description: Boost.Process is a library to manage system processes. It can be used to: * create child processes * setup streams for child processes * communicate with child processes through streams (synchronously or asynchronously) * wait for processes to exit (synchronously or asynchronously) * terminate processes Libraries under development =========================== See http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/LibrariesUnderConstruction for a current listing of libraries under development.

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Re: [boost] [support.osuosl.org #20948] Transition of Boost's bug tracking system
by DongInn Kim 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Hi Olaf, Thanks for the update. I have never heard about transitioning from SVN to Git on the boost server machine. I am wondering how the transition could happen without the sysadmin's access though. To the boost group people, do you have any specific plan for this transition? Regards, -- - DongInn On Mar 14, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Olaf van der Spek <ml(a)vdspek.org> wrote: > Hi, > > AFAIK Boost is currently transitioning to Git for version control. I > hit some roadblocks when trying the conversions of Trac to Chili or > Redmine and thought it'd be better to wait until the transition to Git > is complete. > Simplest thing to do might be to move Trac without conversion to the > new host if the old server gets too old. > > Olaf > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:38 PM, DongInn Kim via RT <support(a)osuosl.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> What is the status of the transition of Boost's bug tracking system? The current server is quite old and my boss and I need to decide what to do pretty soon. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> - DongInn >> >> On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:28 PM, Olaf van der Spek via RT <support(a)osuosl.org> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Daniel Takamori via RT >>> <support(a)osuosl.org> wrote: >>>> Added your public key to your user account on boost.osuosl.org It should work >>>> now. >>> >>> Thanks. Given that I don't have a password, how do I use sudo? >>> >>> $ sudo -s >>> >>> We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System >>> Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: >>> >>> #1) Respect the privacy of others. >>> #2) Think before you type. >>> #3) With great power comes great responsibility. >>> >>> [sudo] password for boostadmin: >>> >>> $ passwd >>> Changing password for user boostadmin. >>> Changing password for boostadmin. >>> (current) UNIX password: >>> passwd: Authentication token manipulation error >>> $ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Olaf >>> >> >> > > > > -- > Olaf

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[gil] IMC4 Pixel format
by Harg Tholan 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Hey, I've been trying to find a definition for the IMC4<http://www.fourcc.org/yuv.php#IMC4>pixel format for GIL with no success, not even anything similar (planar pixel formats in which some of the channels are sub-sampled). I've spent many hours already trying to figure out how could I create such pixel format, and I am totally lost... The question is how can I specify that a pixel format is planar, and planes have different sizes due to sub-sampling!....I guess I'll have to override some operator[] operator++, operator-- Or to make a specialization of some classes. But how and where? planar_pixel_iterator? channel_iterator? I need some aid! please! Thanks is advance. H4rg.

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[graph] Archetype's redundant members (Re: [graph]Direct Edge Access)
by Takatoshi Kondo 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Hi Jeremiah, Thanks for your advice. I studied about archetypes. If I understood the minimal archetype requirements based on concepts correctly, some graph archetypes seems to have redundant members. In addition, vertex_list_graph_archetype::degree_size_type should inherit from incidence_graph_archetype. So, I wrote a patch. After applying the patch, all Boost.Graph tests passed. Could you check the patch? -- Takatoshi Kondo On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Jeremiah Willcock <jewillco(a)osl.iu.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Takatoshi Kondo wrote: > >> Hi Jeremiah, >> >> Thank you for your reply. I'm relieved that I understand correctly. I >> come up with a related question. >> I think that general graph algorithm developers should test two >> different things. >> >> One is concepts. If function my_algo() required >> VertexAndEdgeListGraphConcept for the parameter g, it should be >> checked as follows: >> >> #include <boost/graph/graph_concepts.hpp> >> >> template <typename Graph> >> void my_algo(Graph g) { >> BOOST_CONCEPT_ASSERT(( boost::VertexAndEdgeListGraphConcept<Graph> )); >> >> boost::edge(0, 1, g); // accidental invalid use ... Line A >> } >> >> But this test cannot detect out of concepts functions usage as Line A >> if class Graph accidentally provide them. >> So, these problems should be detected the following test: >> >> void my_algo_test() { >> typedef /* Only satisfies VertexAndListGraphConcept*/ Graph; // ... >> Line B >> Graph g; >> my_algo(g); >> } >> >> How do I define the type that is only satisfied specific concepts? > > > Those are called "archetypes" in the terminology of the Boost Concept Check > Library > (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/libs/concept_check/concept_check.htm). > There is a set of them for Boost.Graph concepts in > <boost/graph/graph_archetypes.hpp>. They do not appear to have > documentation, but example uses include most files with the name pattern > *_cc.cpp in libs/graph/test (e.g., bfs_cc.cpp). > > > -- Jeremiah Willcock > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe & other changes: > http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost

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