From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-27 12:55:26
Jon Trauntvein wrote:
> I recently made the switch from visual studio 2005 to visual studio
> 2008. I have a project that uses boost regular expressions as shown
> in
> the following fragment:
>
> bool StringCompDesc::is_valid_input(char const *s)
> {
> bool rtn = strlen(s) <= max_len;
> if(rtn && validate_pattern.length())
> {
> boost::regex ex(validate_pattern.c_str());
> boost::cmatch what;
>
> rtn = boost::regex_match(s,what,ex);
> }
> return rtn;
> } // is_valid_input
>
>
> When this method is invoked with a value of "192.168.4.230" and a
> validate_pattern value of "^([0-9]{1,3})?(\.[0-9]{1,3}){0,3}$" under
> the release build, the program crashes. The stack trace shows that
> match_results<>::set_size() winds up invoking
> _invalid_parameter_noinfo(). I have seen this with both versions
> 1.33.1
> and 1.34.1.
>
> It would appear that visual studio 2008 is not a recognised build
> environment for boost but, despite the warning messages emitted in the
> boost headers, it has appeared to work until now. If anyone is aware
> of
> a way to work around this problem, I would appreciate their advice.
Works for me with VC9 and both current SVN Trunk and Boost-1.34.1.
Dumb question - but I assume you rebuilt Boost.Regex with VC9 rather than
trying to use the VC8 binaries?
HTH, John.