[Boost-users] [program_options] debug assertion with options_description

From: Nicholas Clark (clark_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-18 14:54:58

I just received a huge application that uses boost for just about
everything.  I am receiving a debug assertion when trying to add program
descriptions.  To help isolate the error I have built a very simple example
and am still getting the crash.  For reference I am using boost 1.32.  When
I moved to any of the newer versions of boost this specific error goes away
but I rack up a list of compiler errors a mile long.  I am trying to fix
this issue without moving to a newer version of boost because this is a
legacy application and we have a minimum amount of time/budget.  

 

The last compiled version delivered by the old contractor does not have this
error.  This previous version was built with VS71 but we are using VS80
(with SP2) . could this be the difference?

 

#include <boost/program_options.hpp>

 

namespace po = boost::program_options;

 

using namespace std;

using namespace boost::program_options;

 

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])

{

      po::options_description desc("Allowed options");

      desc.add_options()

            ("help,H", "produce help message")

            ;

      return 0;

}

 

Again a debug assert is triggered when calling 'add_options' with boost 1.32
but not in newer version using VS80 with SP2.

 

Thanks!

Nick

 

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