MSVC compiler misbehaviour - .lib & .exp files build for .EXE project

[piotr.ns2011@…]

There is bug in VS 2010 (and older versions) which makes EXE projects to build .LIB and .EXP files when using DLL runtime and "new (std::nothrow)" - as in "boost\pool" default_user_allocator_new_delete.

The patch below is a workaround for this problem. According to this page: ​http://bit.ly/nCKoel there are no plans to fix this error on MSVC side.

// -- file: 
//   boost\pool\pool.hpp
// -- under 
//   static char * malloc BOOST_PREVENT_MACRO_SUBSTITUTION(const size_type bytes)
// -- replace
//   { return new (std::nothrow) char[bytes]; }
// -- with:
#if defined(_DLL) && defined(_MSC_VER)
  { try { return new char[bytes]; } catch (...) { return NULL; } }
#else
  { return new (std::nothrow) char[bytes]; }
#endif

[Steven Watanabe]

Is there some reason that you can't just ignore the extra files? I object to obfuscating the code like this.

[piotr.ns2011@…]

Yes, I can ignore these files, but it's an additional build step that could be avoided. And this is the only piece of code in the whole boost library which adds this step. Note that I've set this ticket's severity to "cosmetic", so I can live without this change.