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[qi][endian]BOOST_ENDIAN_FORCE_PODNESS is defined in Qi
by Takatoshi Kondo 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

Hi, I'm using Boost.Endian with Boost.Qi. It seems that BOOST_ENDIAN_FORCE_PODNESS is defined at boost/spirit/home/support/detail/endian.hpp http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/boost/spirit/home/support/detail/endia… And boost/spirit/include/qi.hpp includes boost/spirit/home/support/detail/endian.hpp According to the Boost.Endian document, endian_buffer's constructors are disappeared by BOOST_ENDIAN_FORCE_PODNESS. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/libs/endian/doc/buffers.html I'd like to use both endian_buffer's constructors and Boost.Qi. Is there any good way to do that? I don't know much abour Boost.Qi, but defining BOOST_ENDIAN_FORCE_PODNESS in the header file makes big side effects. For my workaround, I changed my include order. Sucessfully compiled http://melpon.org/wandbox/permlink/gSijxeBFJorWpzSd Error ocuured http://melpon.org/wandbox/permlink/FVffqcw8JEKGFXU0 --- Takatoshi Kondo

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[property_tree] arrays in info files ?
by alainm 11 Sep '16

11 Sep '16

Hi, Is there a simple way to specify an array value with the info format, something like arr { 42 "" 43 "" 44 "" } but without the empty strings. thanks

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docca: C++ Documentation XSLT library
by Vinnie Falco 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

Hi. When I developed Beast for Boost.Asio (https://github.com/vinniefalco/Beast), I lifted the xsl transforms from Boost.Asio (thanks Chris!) and adapted them. These scripts take the output of Doxygen and transform them into Boost.Book code (or QuickBook code or whatever its called). In other words, it creates a file called reference.qbk. This file is included in the documentation, which gets processed through a Jamfile to produce the HTML documentation that you see here: http://vinniefalco.github.io/beast/index.html This is great, and I am using the same system for my new key/value database engine (https://github.com/vinniefalco/NuDB/). The problem is that now I want to start another project and use the same documentation, but there is a considerable amount of copying going on here. The entire reference.xsl file is copied and placed in the new project: https://github.com/vinniefalco/NuDB/blob/master/doc/reference.xsl This file has to be edited significantly because it has references to project-specific namespaces, prefixes, and various other annoying minutiae. Therefore, I have started a new project called "docca:" https://github.com/vinniefalco/docca This project aims to refactor my variant of Boost.Asio's reference.xsl file so that it can be re-used in other projects. The procedure would be to create your own empty .xsl file, and include docca's xsl file after defining some variables. For example: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:variable name="namespace" select="'ripple::'"/> <xsl:include href="../include/docca/doxygen.xsl"/> </xsl:stylesheet> Above is the file you provide, while include/docca/doxygen.xsl is provided by docca (This is very much a work in progress). By this point many of you have fallen asleep, XSLT is a great cure for insomnia. If you're still awake you're probably very excited at the prospects of a turn-key solution for making great looking docs out of Javadoc comments in your C++ headers so I'll move right on to the questions: 1. Is there already a system for doing this? 2. If not, is there any interest in such a system? Is this project worth the effort? 3. Is this approach viable? Or is there a different approach? 4. Are these the right tools for the job? 5. Is there anyone out there who is fairly knowledgeable with XSLT and Boost.Book / QuickBook? Disclaimer: I am by no means an expert at either Boost.Book, Quick.Book, XSLT, or bjam. My only experience with these tools is recently, to put the Beast repository together. -- Follow me on Github: https://github.com/vinniefalco

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Header-only singletons (was Re: [config] RFC PR 82)
by Vinnie Falco 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira >...I want my library header only and Boost.System requires the category to > be a single static object and it'll even use address comparison to test if the > categories are the same: > ... > Is it guaranteed the above code will return the same object even if this > code was included in different libraries used by the same program? Sorry for the late reply. This header-only idiom works: inline boost::system::error_category const& my_category() { struct my_error_category : boost::system::error_category { ... }; static my_error_category cat; return cat; } This idiom also works: template<class = void> boost::system::error_category const& my_category() { struct my_error_category : boost::system::error_category { ... }; static my_error_category cat; return cat; } Justification: >From the C++ standard (see https://isocpp.org/std/the-standard) 7.1.6 describes inline functions. It says they must exist in every TU that they are used in, and must be the same in all TUs (no diagnostic required). 7.1.6 p6 also states that the address of an (extern) inline function shall be the same in all TUs. Elsewhere, the standard specifies that inline functions are extern by default. Empirical evidence also supports these claims, both of the aforementioned idioms have been used extensively in my projects under gcc, clang, and msvc. This likely upcoming feature (maybe its already in?) further cements support for global variables in header-only libraries: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4424.pdf However, even in the absence of additional language features, the ability to have global variables in header-only libraries exists today, with nothing more than C++11 support. Hope this helps!

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[config] recent change to suffix.hpp causing several failures for Oracle Developer Studio 12.5
by Aparna Kumta 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

A recent change to suffix.hpp seems to cause several tests to fail when compiling with Oracle Developer Studio12.5. The error is: "CC" -std=c++11 -xO4 -mt -erroff=%none -m32 -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_CHRONO_STATIC_LINK=1 -DBOOST_SYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED -DBOOST_SYSTEM_STATIC_LINK=1 -DBOOST_TEST_NO_AUTO_LINK=1 -DBOOST_TIMER_STATIC_LINK=1 -DNDEBUG -D__typeof__=__typeof__ -I".." -c -o ./count.o" "../libs/accumulators/test/count.cpp" "../boost/config/suffix.hpp", line 628: Error: Badly formed constant expression. <snipped> See: http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/output/oracle-spar… % diff ./suffix.hpp ./suffix.hpp_orig 626a627,630 > # elif defined(__has_cpp_attribute) > # if __has_cpp_attribute(noreturn) > # define BOOST_NORETURN [[noreturn]] > # endif % Thanks, Aparna

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[test] Test failures for gcc 4.6
by Andrey Semashev 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

Hi, I'm seeing these test failures for gcc 4.6 (MinGW): http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/output/igaztanaga-… Looks like the error originates from Boost.Test, and I can also see lots of failures in Boost.Test itself for that compiler. Is this a known problem? Any fixes planned?

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Gmane going away
by Tom Kent 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

So it looks like Gmane is under attack and the guy who runs it is thinking about just turning it off (that would be sad). https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/ Anyway, I know a lot of boost users use is as the gnu mailman archive pages are really hard to use. I would like to propose that we (specifically the list owner(s)) mirror the boost mailing lists to the mail-archive.com site. It has good search features and decent thread browse-ability. Thoughts? Tom

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[release] documentation of 1.62 betaX
by Raffi Enficiaud 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Hi, I cannot see the documentation of any of the libraries from http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_62_0_beta1/ . Can anyone please indicate me where I may check the generated online documentation for the betaX/RCX? Thanks, Raffi

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[release] 1.62 Open for fixes.
by Rene Rivera 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Reminder.. The master branch is open for bug fixes, and doc changes, without permission. Any other changes need the permission of a release manager. The release team. -- -- Rene Rivera -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail

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boost.Test: new patch for 11756
by André Draszik 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Hi, I have attached a patch to https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11756 can somebody comment and/or apply it please? I'm not trying to be pushy, just writing here since it seems that it can happen that people see traffic on a bug, but don't realise that a patch was attached. Thanks! Andre'

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Boost-1.62: How to get list of all dirs under 'run-tests libs:' target from status/Jamfile?
by Sergey Sprogis 04 Sep '16

04 Sep '16

I use latest Boost versions to test new C++ compiler in development stage. It's important for me to know what would be "pass rate" for every library which Boost.org reports on its Regression Testing website. To calculate all those pass rates I created script which goes inside every library's 'test', 'example' or whatever subdirectory and launches bjam from there. It creates a separate logfile(s) for every library which I then analyze to calculate "pass rate". But before launching my script I need to know the whole list of dirs which Boost.org uses for its Regression testing. In the previous Boost-1.61.0 version I was able to easily produce such list by extracting it from 'status/Jamfile.v2'. It looked like this: run-tests libs : accumulators/test # test-suite accumulators algorithm/test # test-suite algorithm algorithm/minmax/test # test-suite algorith/minmax ... concept_check # test-suite concept_check config/test # test-suite config container/bench # test-suite container benchmarks container/example # test-suite container_example ..... As you may see this list contains not only 'test' subdirs, but also some others: 'example', 'bench', etc. But now the problem is that in Boost-1.62.0 'status/Jamfile.v2' does not have such full list anymore. Could anyone suggest me some hack how to produce the full list of tested libraries for Boost-1.62.0, similar to one which Boost-1.61.0 has? It would be nice if bjam will eventually have a special option which will allow to produce such list, but for now I'd appreciate just a hack which will help me to solve this issue. Thanks, Sergey

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[test] Unrecognized option -u
by Andrey Semashev 03 Sep '16

03 Sep '16

Hi, I'm seeing test errors about unrecognized option -u presumably from Boost.Test, see here for example: http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/output/teeks99-09b… The test in question is not mine, and I don't know what the -u option is supposed to be for, but I assume it was supported by Boost.Test at some point and now it isn't. Is this an intended change in Boost.Test, an oversight or just a mistake in the Jamfile? If it was supported by Boost.Test, what did the option do and is it ok to just remove it?

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[release] Can I push a bug fix?
by Andrzej Krzemienski 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Hi all, Do I need permission now to push a bug fix to master? I intend to put this fix: https://github.com/boostorg/optional/commit/5d5d1f46baac851c8ec0ca15059d3e7… Regards, &rzej;

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