[program_options] crash on release builds on windows using msvc-8.0 and msvc-8.0_64

[Christopher Lux]

i compiled boost for windows using the msvc-8.0 and msvc-8.0_64 targets. the following code works perfectly on debug builds but crashes on the marked line in x64 mode and goes into an infinite loop in x86 mode. i used visual studio 2005 with and without service pack 1 and even tried the head version of boost from cvs. everytime the crash occurs.

#include <iostream>
#include <boost/program_options.hpp>

namespace po = boost::program_options;

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int width;
    int height;

    try {
        po::options_description  cmd_options("program options");

        cmd_options.add_options()
            ("help", "show this help message")
            ("width", po::value<int>(&width)->default_value(1024), "output width")
            ("height", po::value<int>(&height)->default_value(640), "output height");

        po::variables_map       command_line;
        // the next line produces the crash
        po::store(po::parse_command_line(argc, argv, cmd_options), command_line);
        po::notify(command_line);

        if (command_line.count("help")) {
            std::cout << "usage: " << std::endl;
            std::cout << cmd_options;
            return (0);
        }
    }
    catch (std::exception& e) {
        std::cout << e.what() << std::endl;
        return (-1);
    }

    return (0);
}

[Christopher Lux]

i found the problem (well rediscovered it): ​http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2006/05/19342.php

when disabling _SECURE_SCL on VS8.0 store crashes.

i hope this can be fixed somehow...

[Christopher Lux]

This ticket can be closed. The issue was that boost was compiles with all default compiler settings but the application using program options defined _SECURE_SCL=0 for the release builds. Building boost also with this defined everything workes as expected.