id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 6116 "In chain.hpp there is a variable named ""null""" herod.scott at gmail.com Jonathan Turkanis "In boost/iostreams/chain.hpp on line 322 (of version 1.46 and others) there is a variable named ""null"". While that is legal C++, it is unfortunately all too common for people to place something like ""#define null 0"" somewhere else in their code base. It would be nice if that variable name could be made something like ""null_device"" which is less likely to cause a problem due to other code." Bugs new To Be Determined iostreams Boost 1.46.0 Problem null chain.hpp