id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 3011 code_converter doesn't support boost::ref( std::istream ) Richard Smith Jonathan Turkanis "The documentations says that standard iostreams and streambufs model the Device concepts and that they need to be passed by reference via a boost::ref to components expecting a Device. This works in general, but not with the code_converter filter in 1.39. A short test case is: #include #include #include #include int main() { namespace io = boost::iostreams; io::code_converter cvt( boost::ref(std::cin) ); } A trivial patch that fixes this is attached." Bugs closed Boost 1.40.0 iostreams Boost 1.38.0 Problem fixed