id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
4325	boost::function target method fails after copy constructing a function containing a ref	Scott French <scott@…>	Douglas Gregor	"Attached is a simple reproduction case that creates a boost::function containing a boost::ref, copy constructs a second one from the first, and then attempts to get the target object from the second function object. Using g++ 4.2.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.3, this prints out a valid pointer if compiled -O0, but prints ""0"" (NULL) if compiled -O2. I have done some debugging and believe the problem lies in the function boost::detail::function::reference_manager::manage (line 201 of function_base.hpp in Boost 1.43.0). Each tag case in this function copies only the obj_ptr piece of the obj_ref field. In the case of the boost::function copy constructor, which eventually calls the manage function with clone_functor_tag, this leaves the is_const_qualified and is_volatile_qualified fields of the constructed object uninitialized, leading to sporadic results. Also, I was not able to reproduce this on Linux, and I believe that is because on Linux, the has_trivial_copy_and_destroy method reports true, which causes the manage method to be bypassed, but on Mac OS X, it reports false. I was able to get my test case to pass by changing 

            out_buffer.obj_ref.obj_ptr = in_buffer.obj_ref.obj_ptr;

in the clone_functor_tag case to

            out_buffer.obj_ref = in_buffer.obj_ref;

but I suspect similar changes need to be made for the other tags as well.

Also note that this affects operator== and operator!=, which are implemented in terms of target."	Bugs	closed	Boost 1.43.0	function	Boost Development Trunk	Regression	fixed	function ref copy constructor