id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 12065 Boost program options throws an exception Thomas Milotti Vladimir Prus " Linux 3.19.0-51-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 26 21:22:26 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 15.04 Boost 1.59 po::options_description desc(""Allowed options""); desc.add_options() (""help,h"", ""produce help message"") (""query,"", po::value(), ""query for the search in the index"") (""out,"", po::value(), ""output file for commits parsing"") ; po::positional_options_description p; p.add(""verb"", -1); po::variables_map vm; po::store(po::command_line_parser(ac, av). options(desc).positional(p).run(), vm); po::notify(vm); This snippet will throw an exception in the line options(desc).positional(p).run(), vm); This code works well with boost_1.55" Bugs new To Be Determined program_options Boost 1.59.0 Problem program options throws