I'm encountering a crash with Boost.Locale as the process terminates
I initialise the global Boost.Locale in the contructor of a class with a single static instance (the ATL module to be exact) as I don't have access to the code of my main method (it comes from the Boost.Test runner). A static object seems to be the only logical place to put this code:
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I've tried to reproduce the bug but I couldn't: at least with MSVC9 with Release and Debug builds and under Linux. (I do not have MSVC8 you are using). Can you provide a simple sample of the code that reproduces the issue so I can debug it? Also what setup are you using: - Debug, Release or RelWithDebInfo builds - How do you use Boost.Locale - static version or dynamic (dll)? if you use static version are you sure you link with correct ICU library -- (debug versions of ICU library end with "d" suffix) - What version of Boost.Locale you use? Taken from SVN, boost_locale.zip or boost_locale-svn_r1112.zip? - What is your system locale? - Does program crashes when dictionaries are not loaded? (i.e. comment out: gen.add_messages_domain("swish"); ) - What ICU version do you have?
If I move the initialisation code to run just before each point I need to use translate() then it works fine. So maybe this has something to do with the way static data is destroyed. This is on Windows - not sure about other platforms.
Any ideas?
Can you try please following: add global destructor that would reset the global locale to standard one: ~CModule() { std::locale::global(std::locale::classic()); }
Many thanks.
Alex Lamaison
P.S. I realise Boost.Locale isn't in Boost yet but previous discussions have been here so it seems a reasonable place to ask.
Yes this is the place, I would request the formal review soon, so I do need inputs from users before I do it. Thanks, Artyom