lexical_cast doesn't compile without exceptions

[Mathias Gaunard]

With GCC, simply including <boost/lexical_cast.hpp> is enough to yield the following error:

In file included from /media/data/dev/svn/boost-trunk/boost/numeric/conversion/converter.hpp:14:0,
                 from /media/data/dev/svn/boost-trunk/boost/numeric/conversion/cast.hpp:32,
                 from /media/data/dev/svn/boost-trunk/boost/lexical_cast.hpp:40,
test.cpp:14:
/media/data/dev/svn/boost-trunk/boost/numeric/conversion/converter_policies.hpp: In member function ‘void boost::numeric::def_overflow_handler::operator()(boost::numeric::range_check_result)’:
/media/data/dev/svn/boost-trunk/boost/numeric/conversion/converter_policies.hpp:162:31: error: exception handling disabled, use -fexceptions to enable

It would be nice if Boost.Lexical_cast (and Boost.Numeric Convert that it seems to use) could be made to work with exceptions disabled.

The reason I need this is because Boost.Math seems to depend on lexical_cast, and I want to use it without exception support.

[Mathias Gaunard]

The best solution would be to replace all references to "throw" by the macro BOOST_THROW_EXCEPTION which expands to the right thing depending on whether exceptions are enabled or not.

[Antony Polukhin]

It is not a lexical_cast bug. Lexical cast uses throw_exception function, which works correct with BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS flag.

I`ll redirect this issue to numeric_cast library. If this bug wont be fixed soon. Ill fix it myself (it is a trivial bug)

[Antony Polukhin]

I`ll do some workaround to allow lexical_cast compile with exceptions off even if numeric cast requires exceptions.

[Antony Polukhin]

Updated in r77116 (added tests, some workarounds, updated documentation, enabled exception handling with -fvisibility=hidden flag)
Unable to make a good workaround, without copy-pasting a lot of numeric_cast code. Continue to wait for #5731, #5076, #5393 resolutions.

[Antony Polukhin]

(In [77234]) Fixes #5731, fixes #5076, fixes #5393, fixes #5800 Now numeric_cast (and lexical_cast) can be compiled with disabled exceptions

[Antony Polukhin]

(In [77236]) More strict tests for disabled exceptions (for fixed #5800)