id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
704,format zero length string msvc-8,drjohnfoster,Samuel Krempp,"{{{
Since Microsoft have deprecated most of the standard 
library, their debug libraries also check for unsafe 
pointers. The following code gives an assertion:

(boost::format(""%s"") % """").str();

In debug mode, basic_string<char>::append(0, 0) 
called from mk_str in feed_args.hpp is tested by the 
macro _DEBUG_POINTER, and decides the pointer is 
invalid even though the count is 0.

I imagine this toxic behaviour is repeated in a 
number of places. It would be nice if the boost 
library could work around this problem at a low level.
}}}",Bugs,closed,Boost 1.35.0,format,None,Problem,fixed,,