Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #4777: tr1 random tests don't compile: private typedef in boost::random::discard_block

severity changed

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:43:43 GMT

Marshall Clow — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:40:17 GMT

Just tried this on the trunk [66302], release branch [66302] and the 1.44 release. No errors here - Mac OS X 10.6.2, gcc 4.2.1

On the release test matrix, http://www.boost.org/development/tests/release/developer/random.html, I'm seeing two compilers (Pathscale and Qcc) having trouble, and all the rest are green.

I'm guessing, from the "C2248" error number, that this is Visual Studio - but what version, etc?

Marshall Clow — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:49:36 GMT

Ok - so I'm looking at the tr1 tests instead. ;-)

In the test matrix, http://www.boost.org/development/tests/release/developer/tr1.html the tests are failing for run_random and std_run_random, but they are run-time failures, not compile time errors.

For VC9, some of the tr1/random tests are marked as "expected failure".

More information, please.

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:24:47 GMT

Each row involving random: run_random, std_run_random, std_test_random, test_random

Each row fails to compile on > 50% of the platforms, citing private typedefs as above. E.g., MinGW-32.

Steven Watanabe — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:28:30 GMT

(In [66803]) Make result_type public. Fixes #4777.