Ubuntu
boost package

program segfaults without upstream fix

Bug #62202 reported by Aristid Breitkreuz on 2006-09-24

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	boost (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Binary package hint: libboost-dev

A program of mine crashes with a segmentation fault if this patch is not applied to /usr/include/boost/any.hpp from libboost-dev 1.33.1:

This bug is an obvious trivial typo that slipped through for more than a year because it occurs in an extremely rare situation.

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Aristid Breitkreuz (aribrei) wrote on 2006-09-24:

Minimal example part 1

Compile this with

g++ -fvisibility=hidden -fPIC -shared -o test2.so test2.cpp

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Aristid Breitkreuz (aribrei) wrote on 2006-09-24:

Minimal example part 2

After having compiled part 1, compile this one like this:

g++ test2.so test.cpp

Then run
./a.out

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Malcolm Parsons (malcolm-parsons) wrote on 2006-09-25:

The program crashes.

Changed in boost:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Matti Lindell (mlind) wrote on 2006-09-25:

This should be fixed on Edgy, boost 1.33.1-7ubuntu1.

Changed in boost:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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