Paul A Bristow wrote:
| -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Edward Diener | Sent: 04 April 2006 17:36 | To: boost@lists.boost.org | Subject: Re: [boost] [serialization] | Serialisation/deserialisation offloating-point values | | Paul A Bristow wrote: | > | > (Digression - because of the memory leak in stringstream in | VS 8.0 (it is | > disgraceful that we haven't had an SP1 for this), | | Another digression. | | They have an online bug reporting system at | http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/default.aspx. | So far they appear to be very responsive to any bugs reported.
A workaround for the problem above has been issued - but it involves re-compiling to produce a new .dll, a significant hassle.
My view is that this is not good enough - the very least is issue of a new .dll. But an SP1 would be better - there seem to be number of things they have fixed.
I have expressed this view to their forum (and I am not alone!).
MS has been in no-SP mode since VS .NET has come out.
The response to the original report on 7.1 loopback was
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?feedbackid=7 bf2f26d-171f-41fe-be05-4169a54eef9e
essentially "it's a feature" - but then it was fixed in 8.0!
It is demoralizing but you have to argue with MS once they gave one of their inane responses justifying bugs as "as designed".
So don't hold your breath on this - VS 2008??
Possibly, but of course there is no guarantee it will be fixed even in a future new release. But I think once you force MS to admit that something is truly a bug, they will fix it. This is much better than Borland who, even when they knew a bug existed, simply decided to ignore both the bug report or any future fix.
I suspect that the Fair Dinkumware version may be corrected already - would anyone like to test?
What is Fair Dinkumware ?