id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
3677	Serialization via a reference to a pointer fails at compile time	churanov.port.maintainer@…	Robert Ramey	"The 'x11-toolkits/gigi' application failed to compile with the Boost-1.41. The application is known to build successfully with boost 1.39.

The error message is:
error: cannot convert 'const boost::serialization::extended_type_info_typeid<GG::Font>' to 'const boost::serialization::extended_type_info*' in return

The issue may be reproduced using the preprocessed translation unit ""saveload.ii""

The command-line is g++43 -o saveload.o -c -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wall -Wno-parentheses -O2 -pthread saveload.ii

The operating system is FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE/i386 [[BR]]
The compiler is g++43 (GCC) 4.3.5 20091115 (prerelease)

Links to external files:

Error log fragment - http://alexanderchuranov.com/boost-port/gigi-boost-1.41/gigi-boost-1.41.0.log [[BR]]
The preprocessed translation unit - http://alexanderchuranov.com/boost-port/gigi-boost-1.41/saveload.ii [[BR]]
The full application source - http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/x11-toolkits/gigi
"	Bugs	closed	Boost 1.42.0	serialization	Boost 1.41.0	Regression	fixed