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Any interest in a boost::glob() function?
by Angus Leeming 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

Dear all, I've taken Richard Johnson's glob_iterator that he posted to the list back in January and re-written it completely, using Boost.Spirit to transform the input 'glob' into an equivalent regex. The result is a 'boost::glob' function that I believe is fully POSIX-conformant. Example usage: fs::path const starting_directory("."); std::list<fs::path> const matches = boost::glob("../te?t/foo*bar", starting_directory); The docs can be browsed online at http://www.devel.lyx.org/~leeming/globbing/index.html The library can be found at http://www.devel.lyx.org/~leeming/globbing.zip It should unzip to give: boost/glob.hpp boost/detail/glob.hpp libs/glob + ensuing sub directories and files. The code has been tested on Linux (g++ 3.3.2) and on Windows using MinGW/MinSys. There are still some "issues" that I don't know how to resolve. Any pointers would be most welcome: REGEX ===== A single test "foo[[:alpha:]]bar" is failing under Windows. It succeeds under Linux. Is there anything about Boost.Regex with MinGW/MinSys that I should be aware of? DOCS ==== * It would be nice to insert a table inside an itemized list item, but quickbook doesn't like doing that. Instead I must add the table in a separate paragraph which messes up the look a little. * boostbook/doxygen fails to document the glob_flags enum. * I generate a BOOST_LIB_NAME.html page and would like to supress it. * The bottom of the first page has this "Last revised: September 13, 2004 at 04:56:20 GMT" I don't know where it comes from, but it's just not true ;-) BUILD ===== I have a couple of targets, lib/glob/example/real_glob.cpp and lib/glob/test/test_real_glob.cpp that I'd like to build only on POSIX machines. (They're wrappers for the system glob function.) Any pointers on how to instruct bjam to do that? Regards, Angus

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Re: immutable string
by Igor Kholodov 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

>> Any plans in the future >> to add reverse iterator support to const_string? >> I wrote some code to work around the absence >> of const_reverse_iterator, rbegin(), and rend(), >> all of which would be nice to have available. > >They are there. Sorry, I meant to say that existing versions of rbegin() and rend() inside const_string template class return reverse_iterator, not const_reverse_iterator. There is a typedef for "reverse_const_iterator", but it is not used by any member functions. At the same time, std::basic_string<> provides const_reverse_iterator, just like all other sequence containers. Igor Kholodov cttl(a)users.sourceforge.net http://cttl.sourceforge.net/

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RE: [boost] Name checking in filesystem
by Ben Hutchings 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

Walter Landry <wlandry(a)ucsd.edu> wrote: > I have come across an annoying problem with the filesystem library. I > have wrapped filesystem with Swig so that I can call it from python. <snip> Er... why? Aside from the name portability checking, I think everything in Boost.Filesystem is already available in the Python standard library. Ben.

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[mpl] bad interaction with Boost.Bind
by Joaquín Mª López Muñoz 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

This is a distilled form of the problem Vladimir found in http://tinyurl.com/3zsha The attached snippet fails with the latest CVS image in GCC 3.2 (see err.out). If I comment the first line #include <boost/bind/arg.hpp> // comment to get it working the snippet works OK. Also, the code works fine for Boost 1.31, (by previously replacing reverse_iter_fold with iter_fold_backward, of course) regardless of wether I comment or not the first line. Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo foo.cpp: In instantiation of `f1::apply<mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>': /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/bind.hpp:205: instantiated from `boost::mpl::apply_wrap2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>' /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/bind.hpp:205: instantiated from `boost::mpl::bind2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>::apply<int, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 3>, mpl_::na, mpl_::na, mpl_::na>' /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/reverse_iter_fold_impl.hpp:140: instantiated from `boost::mpl::apply_wrap2<boost::mpl::bind2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>, int, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 3> >' /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/reverse_iter_fold_impl.hpp:140: instantiated from `boost::mpl::apply2<boost::mpl::bind2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>, int, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 3> >' /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/reverse_iter_fold_impl.hpp:140: instantiated from `boost::mpl::aux::reverse_iter_fold_impl<4, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 0>, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 4>, int, boost::mpl::bind2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>, boost::mpl::protect<mpl_::arg<1>, 0> >' /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/reverse_iter_fold.hpp:43: instantiated from `boost::mpl::reverse_iter_fold<f3, int, f2, boost::arg<1> >' foo.cpp:23: instantiated from here foo.cpp:11: no type named `type' in `struct mpl_::_2' /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/bind.hpp: In instantiation of `boost::mpl::bind2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>::apply<int, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 3>, mpl_::na, mpl_::na, mpl_::na>': /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/reverse_iter_fold_impl.hpp:140: instantiated from `boost::mpl::apply_wrap2<boost::mpl::bind2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>, int, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 3> >' /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/reverse_iter_fold_impl.hpp:140: instantiated from `boost::mpl::apply2<boost::mpl::bind2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>, int, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 3> >' /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/reverse_iter_fold_impl.hpp:140: instantiated from `boost::mpl::aux::reverse_iter_fold_impl<4, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 0>, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 4>, int, boost::mpl::bind2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>, boost::mpl::protect<mpl_::arg<1>, 0> >' /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/reverse_iter_fold.hpp:43: instantiated from `boost::mpl::reverse_iter_fold<f3, int, f2, boost::arg<1> >' foo.cpp:23: instantiated from here /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/bind.hpp:205: no type named `type' in `struct boost::mpl::apply_wrap2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1> ' /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/reverse_iter_fold_impl.hpp: In instantiation of `boost::mpl::aux::reverse_iter_fold_impl<4, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 0>, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 4>, int, boost::mpl::bind2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>, boost::mpl::protect<mpl_::arg<1>, 0> >': /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/reverse_iter_fold.hpp:43: instantiated from `boost::mpl::reverse_iter_fold<f3, int, f2, boost::arg<1> >' foo.cpp:23: instantiated from here /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/reverse_iter_fold_impl.hpp:140: no type named `type' in `struct boost::mpl::apply2<boost::mpl::bind2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>, int, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 3> >' /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/reverse_iter_fold_impl.hpp:141: no type named `type' in `struct boost::mpl::apply2<boost::mpl::bind2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>, int, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 3> >' /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/reverse_iter_fold_impl.hpp:142: no type named `type' in `struct boost::mpl::apply2<boost::mpl::bind2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>, int, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 3> >' /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/reverse_iter_fold_impl.hpp:143: no type named `type' in `struct boost::mpl::apply2<boost::mpl::bind2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>, int, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 3> >' /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/aux_/preprocessed/gcc/reverse_iter_fold_impl.hpp:146: no type named `type' in `struct boost::mpl::apply2<boost::mpl::bind2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>, int, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 3> >' /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/reverse_iter_fold.hpp: In instantiation of `boost::mpl::reverse_iter_fold<f3, int, f2, boost::arg<1> >': foo.cpp:23: instantiated from here /usr/local/boost_1_32_alpha/boost/mpl/reverse_iter_fold.hpp:43: no type named ` state' in `struct boost::mpl::aux::reverse_iter_fold_impl<4, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 0>, boost::mpl::v_iter<f3, 4>, int, boost::mpl::bind2<f1, mpl_::_2, mpl_::_1>, boost::mpl::protect<mpl_::arg<1>, 0> >' foo.cpp:23: syntax error before `;' token foo.cpp: In function `int main()': foo.cpp:27: `f4' undeclared (first use this function) foo.cpp:27: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) foo.cpp:27: parse error before `;' token

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RE: [boost] Re: Re: Constrained genericity at last? (anyinterestinanoperator traits/concept traits library?)
by Ben Hutchings 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

Matt Hurd <matt.hurd(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Victor A. Wagner Jr. <vawjr(a)rudbek.com> wrote: > > I don't see the safety issue and what you showed is incorrect; > > a + (b-a) / 2 is at least correct, but b-a overflows just as readily > > as a+b > > oops, for sure, b-a rather. > > I'm missing some understanding, given that b >= a, why is b-a just as > ready to overflow as a+b? I guess you are saying b - a > 2GB > (typical ptrdiff_t) is just as likely as an overflow from a + b, if > it was legal, on a common 32 bit platform for example, or have I > misunderstood? For any two pointers a, b into the same array, b - a is well-defined, so a + (b - a) / 2 is as well. (So if ptrdiff_t has n value bits, arrays must have fewer than 2^(n-1) elements.) If a and b don't point into the same array, b - a is undefined. I don't see any basis for Victor's statement that "b-a overflows". Given the way pointers are commonly represented, adding them is likely to result in overflow very often unless one uses extra bits in the representation of pointer sums. This is not a problem if one sticks to modulo arithmetic, but it is if one wants to do division. Ben.

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Boost License Permission
by Samuel Krempp 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

I Samuel Krempp, give permission for all my contributions to Boost to be moved to the Boost Software License Version 1. I thus add my name to more/blanket_permission.txt. -- Samuel Krempp

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[build] doxygen and predefined macros
by Angus Leeming 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

My header file defines two macros, BOOST_LIB_NAME and BOOST_GLOB_DECL. I don't want either to be documented, but find that I can pass only one PREDEFINED variable to doxygen through Jamfile.v2. Multiple PREDEFINED lines don't work. Is ther a way to pass more than one variable on a single line? Regards, Angus import toolset ; toolset.using doxygen ; doxygen autodoc : ../../../boost/glob.hpp : <doxygen:param>EXTRACT_ALL=YES <doxygen:param>EXTRACT_PRIVATE=NO <doxygen:param>HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS=YES <doxygen:param>ENABLE_PREPROCESSING=YES <doxygen:param>MACRO_EXPANSION=YES <doxygen:param>EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF=YES <doxygen:param>PREDEFINED=BOOST_GLOB_DECL <doxygen:param>SEARCH_INCLUDES=YES ; boostbook glob : glob.qbk.xml : <xsl:param>boost.root=../../../.. <xsl:param>toc.max.depth=3 <xsl:param>toc.section.depth=3 <xsl:param>chunk.section.depth=3 ;

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Where are they now? (needed license permissions)
by John Maddock 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

Here are the people we still need to contact, in order to move the rest of Boost over to the BSL, if anyone has a more up to date email address for these folks than the ones shown here, please let me know, as at present they're not responding :-( Cadenza New Zealand Ltd mark.rodgers(a)cadenza.co.nz David Moore dmoore(a)viefinancial.com François Faure francois(a)cg.tuwien.ac.at Gennadiy Rozental ?? Guillaume Melquiond guillaume.melquiond(a)ens-lyon.fr Jaap Suter j.suter(a)student.utwente.nl Joerg Walter jhr.walter(a)t-online.de Mathias Koch ?? Joaquín M López Muñoz joaquin(a)tid.es Paul Moore ?? Ronald Garcia garcia(a)cs.indiana.edu Samuel Krempp krempp(a)crans.ens-cachan.fr Stephen Cleary scleary(a)jerviswebb.com Stephen Silver ?? Terje Slettebø tslettebo(a)chello.no Thomas Becker tmbecker1(a)yahoo.com William E Kempf ?? iMAGIS-GRAVIR UJF co François Faure francois(a)cg.tuwien.ac.at Francois.Faure(a)imag.fr uBLAS developers ?? Thanks! John.

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explicit-failures-markup.xml invalid
by Stefan Slapeta 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

Currently all expected failures are not considered in the summary because explicit-failures-markup.xml was invalid. I've fixed the file now (...and hope there will soon be a fixed table, too :) ). Stefan

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mingw-3.4.2 release candidate and regression tests
by Bronek Kozicki 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

Hello I'm going to upgrade testing environment from mingw-3.4.1 to mingw-3.4.2 release candidate (I will keep running tests on mingw-3.3.1 with toolset mingw, as it is now). I'm also going to upgrade mingw-runtime to version 3.5 and w32api to version 3.1. This might of course change results of regression tests I'm running, but I believe that these results will be closer to release version of mingw 3.4.2, when it's finally released. Any objections, opinions or advices about this move? B.

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