
22 May
2007
22 May
'07
7:19 p.m.
My only complaint about boost::optional is that it is very difficult to see values in the debugger. I brought this up in a discussion at BoostCon, and Jeff Garland suggested I submit a patch. Well, I have a patch. The change introduces a new private T* m_value and protected method update_debug() which sets this variable. The variable is only visible when building debug, and the method is empty in non-debug. From there, I simply call update_debug() in each public method that changes the storage. The final result is that debuggers can see the variable data by looking at opt.m_value. When not set, the value is null. Any thoughts? Jeff Faust