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[quickbook] Strange error regarding lists
by Edward Diener 20 Jul '14

20 Jul '14

Using the latest quickbook on 'develop' in some documentation I have: * a comment SOMENAME only to get the quickbook error: my_file:14: error: Nested blocks in lists won't be supported in quickbook 1.6. Why am I seeing this ?

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[clang] Using clang in Windows
by Edward Diener 19 Jul '14

19 Jul '14

Just a note to everybody about using clang in Windows. I upgraded the latest clang-linux.jam file in Boost Build on the 'develop' branch so that clang in Windows using gcc should now work for the purposes of testing Boost libraries. If you get the latest clang and build it on Windows using CMake with any of the mingw generators or Ninja, you will have a clang executable which will default to a target using gcc headers and libraries. If you add a line in user-config.jam such as: using clang : : yourpath/clang++.exe ; then you should be able to execute: b2 toolset=clang in order to run tests from withion a test directory for any Boost library using clang as your compiler. The output looks very good without any of the problems I have seen before when running clang in Windows. Just make sure you switch to the Boost Build 'develop' branch and pull the latest source. I have been successful so far when running tests of preprocessor, mpl, type_traits, and tti with clang in Windows. I will test some more libraries but so far it looks to me that the clang developers have finally created a version under Windows which can be used to successfully test Boost libraries. This adds one more reliable testing environment under Windows. Now I can use the latest clang, various flavors of gcc under mingw, and various flavors of VC++.

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Re: [boost] Portable robust mutex an another try...
by Ladislav Sopko 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

Hello, I did try to continue with */Ion Gaztanaga's /*idea of portable robust mutex. I post my code and considerations in codereview. http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/57083/portable-c-boostiterpro… I hope to find some one to discuss about. thx > Hi, > > The portable mutex has been in dormant state for a long time, so thanks > for recovering it ;-) > > It wasn't further developed and I think your proposal could be an > improvement, although I still don't like the preallocation of a 4MB > file. I have no much time lately to review and add improvements to > Interprocess, but please add this link or the patch to a boost trac > ticket or as a GitHub pull request so that this is not forgotten when I > find some time. > > Best, > > Ion > > > Hi, Allocation of that 4MB is small fee for much better performance, because continuous search of files on disk slow it down really hard. Then I think to extend it with time stamp as Niall Douglas wrote. I just need atomic CAS for 64bit. Cause the time stamp and process ID must be changed in one shot. Then I can skip many robust checks, if the time from last lock is shorter than some predefined interval. So many regular locks will neither test file lock and it will run faster. In case one process die, there will be expired timeout and lock candidate will go check file lock. I'll check if I can add a 64bit CAS in boost\interprocess\detail\atomic.hpp. (if you know how it should be done, it will be a big help for me, cause I have not a lot of practice in atomic portable world.) regards -- Sopko Ladislav 3D Informatica, Via Speranza 35, 40068, S.Lazzaro di Savena - Bologna, Italy Tel: +39051450844 | Fax: +39051451942 WWW: http://www.3di.it Documentation: https://intra.3di.it/manuali/ - http://wiki.3di.it FTP: ftp://ftp@ftp.3di.it, Download:/3di, Upload:/incoming **** Informativa Privacy - Ai sensi del D. Lgs n. 196/2003 (Codice Privacy) si precisa che le informazioni contenuti in questo messaggio sono riservate e ad uno esclusivo del destinatario. Qualora il messaggio in parola Le fosse pervenuto per errore, La preghiamo di eliminarlo senza copiarlo e di non inoltrarlo a terzi, dandocene gentilmente comunicazione. Grazie. Privacy Information - This message, for the D. Lgs m. 196/2003 (Privacy Code), may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addessee, you must not use, copy, disclose or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thanks you for your cooperation. --

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regex iterator memory leak
by Marjan Yahyanejad 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

I am using the example code of regex iterator in http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/ref/re… , in a linux machine with default boost config which means NON RECURSIVE, and 4096 block size , I run the example with mtrace , setting it at first line of main method and doing muntrace right before return 0, I see that 4096 bytes get lost based on mtrace logs. if there are no flaws in my test, then is there something I should separately call to free up that memory? Otherwise that blocks seems lost to me. The original reason I started this test was that I have a similar code, and I see memory corruption on my machine which is causing connection drops to my rabbitmq server and it goes away as soon as I comment out the following three lines. So I think there is something wrong with the memory allocations of boost regex iterator. boost::sregex_iterator m1(text.begin(), text.end(), expression); boost::sregex_iterator m2; std::for_each(m1, m2, &regex_callback); Thanks --

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[boostdep] Unable to build on 'develop' branch
by Edward Diener 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

When I try to build boostdep on the 'develop' branch with gcc-4.8.1 I get: > gcc.compile.c++ ..\..\..\bin.v2\tools\boostdep\src\gcc-mingw-4.8.1\release\link-static\boostdep.o > boostdep.cpp: In function 'void scan_module_dependencies(const string&, module_primary_actions&)': > boostdep.cpp:193:46: error: no matching function for call to 'std::basic_ifstream<char>::basic_ifstream(const value_type*)' > std::ifstream is( it->path().c_str() ); > ^ > boostdep.cpp:193:46: note: candidates are: > In file included from ..\..\../boost/filesystem/operations.hpp:46:0, > from ..\..\../boost/filesystem.hpp:17, > from boostdep.cpp:11: > c:\utilities\mingwcurrent\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.8.1\include\c++\fstream:467:7: note: std::basic_ifstream<_CharT, _Traits>::basic_ifstream(const char*, std::ios_base::openmode) [with _CharT = char; _Traits = std::char_traits<char>; std::ios_base::openmode = std::_Ios_Openmode] > basic_ifstream(const char* __s, ios_base::openmode __mode = ios_base::in) > ^ > c:\utilities\mingwcurrent\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.8.1\include\c++\fstream:467:7: note: no known conversion for argument 1 from 'const value_type* {aka const wchar_t*}' to 'const char*' > c:\utilities\mingwcurrent\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.8.1\include\c++\fstream:453:7: note: std::basic_ifstream<_CharT, _Traits>::basic_ifstream() [with _CharT = char; _Traits = std::char_traits<char>] > basic_ifstream() : __istream_type(), _M_filebuf() > ^ > c:\utilities\mingwcurrent\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.8.1\include\c++\fstream:453:7: note: candidate expects 0 arguments, 1 provided > c:\utilities\mingwcurrent\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.8.1\include\c++\fstream:427:11: note: std::basic_ifstream<char>::basic_ifstream(const std::basic_ifstream<char>&) > class basic_ifstream : public basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> > ^ > c:\utilities\mingwcurrent\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.8.1\include\c++\fstream:427:11: note: no known conversion for argument 1 from 'const value_type* {aka const wchar_t*}' to 'const std::basic_ifstream<char>&' > In file included from ..\..\../boost/filesystem/path_traits.hpp:23:0, > from ..\..\../boost/filesystem/path.hpp:25, > from ..\..\../boost/filesystem.hpp:16, > from boostdep.cpp:11: > ..\..\../boost/system/error_code.hpp: At global scope: > ..\..\../boost/system/error_code.hpp:221:36: warning: 'boost::system::posix_category' defined but not used [-Wunused-variable] > static const error_category & posix_category = generic_category(); > ^ > ..\..\../boost/system/error_code.hpp:222:36: warning: 'boost::system::errno_ecat' defined but not used [-Wunused-variable] > static const error_category & errno_ecat = generic_category(); > ^ > ..\..\../boost/system/error_code.hpp:223:36: warning: 'boost::system::native_ecat' defined but not used [-Wunused-variable] > static const error_category & native_ecat = system_category(); Similar error occurs if I build with clang. Anybody know what the problem is ? I pulled the latest for all submodules on 'develop'.

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Parallel Sorting Algorithms
by Melkowski, Kevin M. (MU-Student) 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

I noticed on the google summer of code page that multi-threading and sorting algorithms such as the Radix Sort was a big interest right now. I’ve been developing an open-sourced parallel Radix Sort for a while now and wanted to submit it to a library. This algorithm sorts positive and negative values for each standard data type. The code I have can be found here: https://github.com/Kevincav/Radix-Sort. When running tests for this, on my laptop I managed to sort 1 billion uniformly distributed floats in about 45 seconds. When I tested std::sort with the same test it never finished, it sorted 100 million floats finished around that time though. This is optimized for both C and C++ programs, the documentation isn’t done yet so that’s one thing I still need to finish. This is my first post and I tried to follow the guidelines, hopefully it wasn’t a bad first post. Thanks for reading, Kevin

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[detail] Disabling Warnings in Jamfile
by Axel Ismirlian 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

I am trying to build and compile the detail tests on AIX 6.1 with gcc, but there is one small problem on the very last test: gcc.compile.c+ + ../bin.v2/libs/detail/test/container_fwd/container_fwd_debug.test/gcc-4.8.1/debug/container_fwd_test.o In file included from /opt/freeware/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix6.1.0.0/4.8.1/include/c+ +/cstddef:41:0, from ../boost/config/select_stdlib_config.hpp:18, from ../boost/config.hpp:44, from ../boost/detail/container_fwd.hpp:16, from ../libs/detail/test/container_fwd/container_fwd_test.cpp:6: /opt/freeware/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix6.1.0.0/4.8.1/include/c+ +/powerpc-ibm-aix6.1.0.0/bits/c++config.h:277:4: error: #warning currently using inlined namespace mode which may fail without inlining due to lack of weak symbols [-Werror=cpp] # warning currently using inlined namespace mode which may fail \ ^ cc1plus: all warnings being treated as errors "g++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O0 -fno-inline -Wall -pedantic -Werror -g -fPIC -fpermissive -g -ftemplate-depth-300 -pedantic -Wstrict-aliasing -fstrict-aliasing -Wextra -Wsign-promo -Wunused-parameter -Wconversion -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG -D_STLP_DEBUG -I".." -c -o "../bin.v2/libs/detail/test/container_fwd/container_fwd_debug.test/gcc-4.8.1/debug/container_fwd_test.o" "../libs/detail/test/container_fwd/container_fwd_test.cpp" If I disable warnings being treated as errors through the Jamfile, the test functions correctly, but how do I customize the Jamfile file for AIX? Is it ok for me to simply ignore this warning? Also I was having a difficult time fully understanding what an inlined namespace is.

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merging the super-project
by Eric Niebler 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

I recently made a tweak to the .gitignore of the super-project on the develop branch. How do I merge that to master? The two branches have different histories, so a regular git merge balks. And when I checkout master (thinking I'll just cherry-pick), I end up with a slew of local changes (which I haven't made). Befuddled, Eric

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1.56.0 beta release candidate 2 available for testing
by Marshall Clow 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

The second release candidate files for 1.56.0 beta are available at http://boost.cowic.de/rc/ As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy. This helps ensure the candidates build OK before we push them out to SourceForge. The files (and associated md5s) are: MD5 (boost-1_56_0_b1_rc2.7z) = cd6267325a8dadbb82b384c4776ee450 MD5 (boost-1_56_0_b1_rc2.tar.bz2) = b74cd72043b6b2fa16c6690633acb422 MD5 (boost-1_56_0_b1_rc2.tar.gz) = b51810be6737e73a4deee70e84895ca7 MD5 (boost-1_56_0_b1_rc2.zip) = f4ceb73492ae7d9b1843d841498850e5 Since this is the first post-git release, we are expecting some teething pains with this release. Please test extensively. Besides bug fixes the TypeIndex library has been included, and I think that the problems that mjklaim(a)gmail.com was seeing have been fixed. I would like to post this to SourceForge Thursday night/Friday morning, if possible. Thank you. --The release managers

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[pool] block_ptr
by Phil Bouchard 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

Hi Boost... long time, In my memory manager: https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/block_ptr/boost/detail/block_base.h… You will see the usage of: boost::singleton_pool<pool, sizeof(char)> because of a required is_from() function call. But I just came to realize there is a pool::is_from() function: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/libs/pool/doc/html/boost_pool/pool/int… Is that function new or in 2011 I overlooked it? If so I will make the change ASAP as this is a nice class. Regards, -Phil www.finitetheory.com

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