https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9402 <pre class="wiki"> Test output: teeks99-03d-win2008-64on64 - thread - ex_executor / msvc-11.0 Rev 86731 / Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:43:27 +0000 Compile [2013-11-17 06:14:19 UTC]: fail call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\vc\vcvarsall.bat" x86 &gt;nul cl /Zm800 -nologo @"C:\local\teeks99-03\d\results\boost\bin.v2\libs\thread\test\ex_executor.test\msvc-11.0\debug\threading-multi\executor.obj.rsp" executor.cpp C:\local\teeks99-03\d\boost\boost/thread/future.hpp(3796) : error C2440: '&lt;function-style-cast&gt;' : cannot convert from 'int (__cdecl *)(void)' to 'BF' No constructor could take the source type, or constructor overload resolution was ambiguous ..\libs\thread\test\..\example\executor.cpp(65) : see reference to function template instantiation 'boost::future&lt;R&gt; boost::async&lt;boost::executor_adaptor&lt;Executor&gt;,int&gt;(boost::executor_adaptor&lt;Executor&gt; &amp;,R (__cdecl *)(void))' being compiled with [ R=int, Executor=boost::thread_pool ] </pre> en-us /htdocs/site/boost.png https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9402 Trac 1.4.3 viboes Sun, 17 Nov 2013 13:36:08 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9402#comment:1 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9402#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>owner</strong> changed from <span class="trac-author">Anthony Williams</span> to <span class="trac-author">viboes</span> </li> <li><strong>status</strong> <span class="trac-field-old">new</span> → <span class="trac-field-new">assigned</span> </li> </ul> Ticket viboes Sat, 23 Nov 2013 18:18:48 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9402#comment:3 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9402#comment:3 <ul> <li><strong>milestone</strong> <span class="trac-field-old">To Be Determined</span> → <span class="trac-field-new">Boost 1.56.0</span> </li> </ul> Ticket viboes Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:47:09 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9402#comment:4 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9402#comment:4 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> <span class="trac-field-old">assigned</span> → <span class="trac-field-new">closed</span> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> → <span class="trac-field-new">fixed</span> </li> </ul> Ticket