[boost] Re: Re: Thread-Local Storage (TLS) and templates

2003-02-26 Thread Ken Hagan
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: There is what that particular implementation does with its extensions and there are various mulit-threading models, what the standard language is defined to be and ways to extend it to support multi-thread and thread local storage. In that regard, bugs in either the

Re: [boost] Re: smart_ptr vs smart_resource

2003-02-26 Thread Terje Slettebø
From: Phil Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Rob Stewart] There can still be a smart_ptr class, even if there's a smart_resource class. Both may be separate manifestations, possibly sharing some implementation details, of a SmartResource concept. Equally plausible, smart_ptr could be implemented

Re: [boost] resource manager naming

2003-02-26 Thread Phil Nash
I would be searching namely for smart_ptr. I know that smart pointer is the name for the resource management idiom. [David Gomboc] But those that don't would look for resource_manager or resource_mgr (and might even find res_mgr). The smart_ prefix is quite useless in this context, there

Re: [boost] possible addition to operators library

2003-02-26 Thread Sam Partington
Hi all, Sorry I've been off air for a bit. I'll try to answer as much as I can in this email. Daniel Frey wrote: I also think it would be fair to mention Dave as a contributor, too, as he provided the way to reduce the overhead. Of course, that bit was still there from the first time through,

Re: [boost] regular expression standardisation proposal

2003-02-26 Thread John Maddock
The column headings in the first table are displaced to the left ( see ECMAScript - comparing ECMA and POSIX regular expressions ) Yes, thanks, the document has been through the MS Word mangle, and it shows :-( John. ___ Unsubscribe other changes:

Re: [boost] Re: smart_ptr vs smart_resource

2003-02-26 Thread Phil Nash
[Terje Slettebø] I also think this makes sense. However, I'm wondering how much commonality there is in such a broader concept. This is kind of making a library implementation of the RAII idiom, and we have that already, in the form of constructors/destructors. Yes.. it's ctors and dtors that

Re: [boost] problem with authorization

2003-02-26 Thread David Abrahams
Alexander Nasonov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I cannot post to gname.comp.lib.boost.user because authorization doesn't work. I receive an authorization request, reply to it but there is no confirmation that I have been authorized and there is no post. goost.test works just fine. This is the

Re: [boost] possible addition to operators library

2003-02-26 Thread Daniel Frey
Sam Partington wrote: Daniel Frey wrote: I also think it would be fair to mention Dave as a contributor, too, as he provided the way to reduce the overhead. Of course, that bit was still there from the first time through, also whoever came up with the original unspecified-bool-type

[boost] Looking for units library

2003-02-26 Thread Alexander Dz
Hi All, I'm participating in pretty complicated scientific project. I'm thinking to deploy a library which helps me to deal with measurement units. As far as I see, SIunits from Walter E. Brown is the most advanced one. Do anybody has experience with SIunits? Where to download it today? Do other

[boost] Re: Looking for units library

2003-02-26 Thread Fredrik Blomqvist
Alexander Dz wrote: Hi All, I'm participating in pretty complicated scientific project. I'm thinking to deploy a library which helps me to deal with measurement units. As far as I see, SIunits from Walter E. Brown is the most advanced one. Do anybody has experience with SIunits? Where to

Re: [boost] Re: io operations for stl containers?

2003-02-26 Thread Vladimir Prus
Hi Terje, [...] But you don't write library, put a seal on it, and stop. There's nothing wrong with making it more flexible when users demand it. As it stands, only few persons are interested in the simplest facilities. Is it worth spending time on completely generic/flexible

Re: [boost] Re: io operations for stl containers?

2003-02-26 Thread Vladimir Prus
Terje Slettebø wrote: Right. There was a suggestion for allowing generic formats, though, using the same format for all instantiations of a template. The question is how to do it. The current version stores the format for each specific type, as you say. Volodya suggested a couple of ways it

[boost] Re: [optional] Polymorphism

2003-02-26 Thread Philippe A. Bouchard
Philippe A. Bouchard wrote: [...] void foo(optionalA const ) { } int main() { optionalB b; optionalC c; foo(b); //foo(c); } There is a bool (m_initialized) that will prevent the pointer to access directly the virtual table. It may not be the case if the boolean was

[boost] Re: Looking for units library

2003-02-26 Thread vladimir josef sykora
Hello Alexander, The issue regarding physical unit types has been raised a couple of times on this newsgroup; however no agreement has been reached so far concerning the functionalities such a library should provide, nor on its design. I developed a small library for that purpose (new version

Re: [boost] [random] Minor problem with lognormal_distribution

2003-02-26 Thread Michael Stevens
Dave, Could you please suggest a patch for the regression tests which will detect this problem? It's always better to get the test to fail first before we check in any fixes. Yep. I'll work on something to pass on to Jens for inclusion latter. There is no simple patch for the regression

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Thread-Local Storage (TLS) andtemplates

2003-02-26 Thread William E. Kempf
Edward Diener said: William E. Kempf wrote: Edward Diener said: William E. Kempf wrote: I still don't think it is a TLS issue but rather a thread cleanup issue and the restrictions imposed by MS's design of that situation. So I can well understand your chagrin at the tricks you must do in

[boost] Re: io operations for stl containers?

2003-02-26 Thread Jason House
Terje Slettebø wrote: From: Jason House [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would suspect that chars don't get output with '' around them... Right. I was just thinking C++ code, here. :) Is there even a way to specify/change that? It isn't currently, as the fundamental types aren't handled as

[boost] Formal Review Requst: String Algorithm Library

2003-02-26 Thread Pavol Droba
Hi Boosters, I'd like to ask for scheduling a formal review for the string algorithm library. It is mostly finished ( only some final polishing of the documentation is in progress ). Its implementation can be found in the boost sandbox. ( Is it required to upload it to yahoo groups before the

[boost] Re: Re: smart_ptr vs smart_resource

2003-02-26 Thread Ed Brey
Rozental, Gennadiy wrote: This is an excellent point. One doesn't go looking for a class named smart_ptr or a library named Boost.SmartPointer when looking to manage the lifetime of some arbitrary resource. When one uses pointers, it makes sense. I would be searching namely for smart_ptr.

RE: [boost] checked_delete.hpp fix

2003-02-26 Thread Jason Shirk
-Original Message- From: David Abrahams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmm, I don't recall that one. Care to refresh my memory? ;-) Maybe they're the same discussion... Yes, that was the discussion, and I apparently remembered things incorrectly. Thanks for the refresher. Jason

[boost] ANSI/ISO VC++ Conformance Strategy in VS 2003

2003-02-26 Thread Jason Shirk
Jonathan Caves, Herb Sutter, and I will be hosting a webchat on C++ conformance in VC7.1 (aka Everett) tomorrow (2/27, 1PM PST). See http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/ for details. My thanks to the Boost moderators for allowing this announcement. Jason Shirk VC++ Compiler Team

Re: [boost] ANSI/ISO VC++ Conformance Strategy in VS 2003

2003-02-26 Thread Beman Dawes
At 02:37 PM 2/26/2003, Jason Shirk wrote: Jonathan Caves, Herb Sutter, and I will be hosting a webchat on C++ conformance in VC7.1 (aka Everett) tomorrow (2/27, 1PM PST). See http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/ for details. My thanks to the Boost moderators for allowing this announcement.

Re: [boost] Re: smart_ptr vs smart_resource

2003-02-26 Thread Terje Slettebø
From: Phil Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Terje Slettebø] I also think this makes sense. However, I'm wondering how much commonality there is in such a broader concept. This is kind of making a library implementation of the RAII idiom, and we have that already, in the form of

[boost] operators.hpp fixed

2003-02-26 Thread Daniel Frey
I just found a small bug of my implementation of NRVO-friendly operators. Nothing serious, I just forgot to respect the setting of BOOST_FORCE_SYMMETRIC_OPERATORS for the shift-operators. I already fixed it in CVS. I hope this is OK without asking on the list first as I just fixed my own stupid

Re: [boost] operators.hpp fixed

2003-02-26 Thread Beman Dawes
At 04:34 PM 2/26/2003, Daniel Frey wrote: I just found a small bug of my implementation of NRVO-friendly operators. Nothing serious, I just forgot to respect the setting of BOOST_FORCE_SYMMETRIC_OPERATORS for the shift-operators. I already fixed it in CVS. I hope this is OK without asking on the

[boost] Re: operators.hpp fixed

2003-02-26 Thread Daniel Frey
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:45:59 +0100, Beman Dawes wrote: No, we still haven't branched. The tentative target is tomorrow morning (US East Coast Time). Just in time :) So go ahead and commit your fix on the main trunk. Done. Regards, Daniel ___

[boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Thread-Local Storage (TLS)andtemplates

2003-02-26 Thread Edward Diener
William E. Kempf wrote: Edward Diener said: William E. Kempf wrote: Edward Diener said: William E. Kempf wrote: I still don't think it is a TLS issue but rather a thread cleanup issue and the restrictions imposed by MS's design of that situation. So I can well understand your chagrin at the

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Thread-Local Storage (TLS)andtemplates

2003-02-26 Thread William E. Kempf
Edward Diener said: I can give you some names. I could also give some e-mail addresses, though that might be considered bad netiquette. But MS *does* have someone who's supposed to champion for us developers... Herb Sutter. If you want to campaign for this, send him a polite e-mail and I'm

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2003-02-26 Thread Jason D Schmidt
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[boost] Broken links report

2003-02-26 Thread Gennadiy Rozental
Hi, I played today with some links validation software and set it upon www.boost.org Here the results for those who is interested. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/BrokenLinksReport.htm I took care about Boost.Test issues. Gennadiy. ___