Turn off BOOST_IOSTREAMS_HAS_DINKUMWARE_FPOS for MSVC++ #57

BillyONeal · 2018-04-16T21:32:53Z

Boost is attempting to use a function not in the standard, seekpos(),
guarded by this setting. Looks like Boost can use the standards
conforming interface for MSVC++ instead. It should work going
back effectively "forever" as far as MSVC++ is concerned, but this
guard applies the change only to 2017. It's possible there is a better
control in boost.config I missed.

Boost is attempting to use a function not in the standard, seekpos(), guarded by this setting. Looks like Boost can use the standards conforming interface for MSVC++ instead. It should work going back effectively "forever" as far as MSVC++ is concerned, but this guard applies the change only to 2017. It's possible there is a better control in boost.config I missed.

eldiener · 2018-04-18T00:16:48Z

The question is how we should be targeting vc++ 14.1 ? I think we should use BOOST_MSVC from config, which holds the value of vc++'s _MSC_VER. Using a recent macro to identify a version of the vc++'s standard library seems very chancy to me.

BillyONeal · 2018-04-18T00:45:14Z

_MSC_VER should be OK if you'd prefer it; we added _MSVC_STL_VERSION specifically at the request of Boost for separate version numbers between the compiler and library (as sometimes new compilers get used with old libraries).

eldiener · 2018-04-18T01:07:24Z

I would not use _MSC_VER directly in your PR but specifically BOOST_MSVC. This is because some other compilers, which are not vc++, also define _MSC_VER whereas BOOST_MSVC means that vc++ specifically is being used. Also are you really saying that newer versions of vc++ could be used with old versions of your C++ standard library ? I did not think that was possible in Microsoft distributions.

When you say that 'Boost can use the standards conforming interface for MSVC++ instead. It should work going back effectively "forever" as far as MSVC++ is concerned' do you mean that all older versions of VC++, with their distributed versions of the C++ standard library, have a standards conforming interface as far as this problem is concerned ? That would be strange as it would put in question the original reason for the vc++ specific code in this particular situation.

BillyONeal · 2018-04-18T01:36:51Z

Also are you really saying that newer versions of vc++ could be used with old versions of your C++ standard library ?

Yes, its a thing people do sometimes. Old libs with new compiler should work, old compiler with new libs is unsupported.

do you mean that all older versions of VC++, with their distributed versions of the C++ standard library, have a standards conforming interface as far as this problem is concerned ?

Modulo bugs, yes. I only tested with 2017 though which is why I so guarded it that way.

That would be strange as it would put in question the original reason for the vc++ specific code in this particular situation.

The Dinkumware code path is used for other Dinkumware licensees; they have this behavior of "call fsetpos followed by fseek" because the C standard says it's UB to call fsetpos on anything not returned by a call to fgetpos. (See C11, 7.21.9.3 "The fsetpos function"/2) But Dinkumware's caution there happens to be unnecessary for at least our current CRT implementation, where fsetpos just sets a 64 bit offset.

There are some bugs that happened with VS 2017 15.7 and earlier where directly comparing fpos instances with non-streamoff integer types created ambiguities (compiler didn't know whether to convert fpos into streamoff and widen other integer, or convert other integer into fpos and compare those) which I fixed in 15.8 by adding comparison operators between fpos and all other integral types. (Note that 15.8 isn't even in preview yet; I just fixed this in our sources last week and found out about Boost depending on this nonstandard seekoff() member I removed because we build Boost with the prerelease compiler every night)

BillyONeal · 2018-04-18T01:42:40Z

directly comparing fpos instances with non-streamoff integer types

Also note that the non-Dinkumware path in Boost already deals with this problem by directly casting the fpos to streamoff first.

eldiener · 2018-04-19T16:57:43Z

The original code path is for Dinkumware rather than for vc++ specifically. If you are saying that vc++ always worked correctly with Dinkumware and did not need this one-off code path we could remove it for any version of vc++ by just checking if BOOST_MSVC is defined. But to be more conservative than that, in order not to destroy the use of iostreams for past versions of vc++ other than the present one, I am fine with approving your PR as long as _MSVC_STL_VERSION is never used by any other compiler, which I assume and hope will be the case, without checking for BOOST_MSVC. To be really conservative though it might be best to check for both _MSVC_STL_VERSION and BOOST_MSVC as a reason to not use the code path. Can you change it appropriately to do that or do you want me to merge the PR and do it myself ? BOOST_MSVC is defined whenever vc++ is the compiler and not defined otherwise.

BillyONeal · 2018-04-19T21:55:07Z

I was just informed last night that there's a Boost.IOStreams test failing right now; let me investigate and I'll keep you posted. Thanks!

BillyONeal · 2018-04-20T02:45:07Z

Turns out the test failure is because I broke basic_stringbuf::seekoff last week :/, so not related to this change. I'll make the change you requested to test BOOST_MSVC first as soon as I hear I haven't broken boost.iostream any more. :)

BillyONeal · 2018-04-20T04:52:14Z

OK, confirmed that it's just because I made seekoff corrupt basic_stringbuf which I just fixed. (Yay, thank you boost iostreams tests for catching my mistake!) Updated PR with the additional test you requested.

MarcelRaad · 2018-07-03T08:15:57Z

Could this be merged to master please? This is needed for VS 2017 Update 8 as of Preview 3.0.

garethsb · 2018-07-09T09:11:02Z

As the original author of the workarounds in boost/iostreams/positioning.hpp, I can confirm they absolutely were necessary back when I produced them in 2005, but that's a long time ago now, even for Boost. ;-)

BillyONeal · 2018-07-09T18:51:41Z

I apologize on behalf of my predecessors? :P

alanbirtles · 2018-07-10T12:27:30Z

No so long ago, this was only fixed in VS 2012, see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/boost-developers-archive/_FPOSOFF%7Csort:date/boost-developers-archive/VT7UxdJwfn4/MXpi6gyoBAAJ for some more discussion

BillyONeal · 2018-07-10T22:44:35Z

Wait wait wait wait we cast it to long? WHY?!???! :(

alanbirtles · 2018-07-11T09:39:35Z

Before VS2010 lots of ugly hacks were required for seeking past 2GB in std::fstream for similar reasons.

…eekpos() with VS 15.8 Change taken from boostorg/iostreams#57, but this is not yet included in a boost release.

mnordie · 2018-10-16T09:34:11Z

Any idea when this will be released?
Doesn't seem to be in 1.68.

jeking3 · 2018-10-16T11:43:11Z

This should appear in 1.69.0 - I think it was supposed to be in 1.68.0 but wasn't merged in time. It is in the pipeline now.

mwpowellhtx · 2018-10-30T23:52:30Z

I'm receiving the same error in iostreams/positioning.hpp. Make sure y'all check and double check your regression before making that commit and/or merging, please.

BillyONeal · 2018-10-31T02:24:50Z

@mwpowellhtx That should be guarded by the ifdef here?

iostreams/include/boost/iostreams/positioning.hpp

Line 63 in a3e973f

# ifndef BOOST_IOSTREAMS_HAS_DINKUMWARE_FPOS

mwpowellhtx · 2018-10-31T03:31:28Z

@BillyONeal It's a good question, it is, but how do I know whether I have "Dinkumware fpos"?

Meanwhile, I am defining _SILENCE_FPOS_SEEKPOS_DEPRECATION_WARNING, but letting the deprecated (returning zero) seekpos() linger just seems like asking for regression trouble.

BillyONeal · 2018-11-01T01:38:44Z

@mwpowellhtx It would be more appropriate to call it "workaround broken Dinkumware behavior where they put file sizes into an int" :)

mwpowellhtx · 2018-11-01T01:45:57Z

@BillyONeal Copy that; I understand. 👍

I installed the patch, BTW, and it appears to be working. I still have to "acknowledge" the issue, so to speak, but at least I can proceed forward.

K-M-Ibrahim-Khalilullah · 2020-04-02T05:33:39Z

@BillyONeal
would tell me please how can I turn off Boost_IOstream_has_dinkkumware_fpos? I already install boost with pcl!

@std

Boost stopped using `_FPOSOFF` when boostorg/iostreams@7c2592c was merged on 2016-09-16. I've verified that this shipped in Boost 1.63.0 on 2016-12-26. We deprecated `std::fpos::seekpos()` with MSVC-PR-132953 merged on 2018-07-18. (We first noticed the problem when MSVC-PR-115404 was merged on 2018-04-11.) Boost stopped using it when boostorg/iostreams#57 was merged on 2018-04-20. I've verified that this shipped in Boost 1.69.0 on 2018-12-12. Note that while the `std::fpos` type appears in the parameter types and return types of dllexported functions, `std::fpos` is not dllexported itself, as indicated by the lack of explicit calling conventions in the source. Because `std::fpos::seekpos()` isn't dllexported, we can freely remove it. (The only mentions of `seekpos` in the dllexport surface are for the different `std::basic_streambuf::seekpos()`, which conveniently also demonstrates how it takes and returns `std::fpos`.) ``` D:\GitHub\STL\out\x64\out\bin\amd64>dumpbin /exports msvcp140d_oss.dll | rg "\bseekpos\b" 1206 4B5 00053D70 ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z = ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z (protected: virtual class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet> __cdecl std::basic_streambuf<char,struct std::char_traits<char> >::seekpos(class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet>,int)) 1207 4B6 00053DB0 ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@GU?$char_traits@G@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z = ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@GU?$char_traits@G@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z (protected: virtual class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet> __cdecl std::basic_streambuf<unsigned short,struct std::char_traits<unsigned short> >::seekpos(class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet>,int)) 1208 4B7 00053DF0 ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@_WU?$char_traits@_W@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z = ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@_WU?$char_traits@_W@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z (protected: virtual class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet> __cdecl std::basic_streambuf<wchar_t,struct std::char_traits<wchar_t> >::seekpos(class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet>,int)) ```

@std

Boost stopped using `_FPOSOFF` when boostorg/iostreams@7c2592c was merged on 2016-09-16. I've verified that this shipped in Boost 1.63.0 on 2016-12-26. We deprecated `std::fpos::seekpos()` with MSVC-PR-132953 merged on 2018-07-18. (We first noticed the problem when MSVC-PR-115404 was merged on 2018-04-11.) Boost stopped using it when boostorg/iostreams#57 was merged on 2018-04-20. I've verified that this shipped in Boost 1.69.0 on 2018-12-12. Note that while the `std::fpos` type appears in the parameter types and return types of dllexported functions, `std::fpos` is not dllexported itself, as indicated by the lack of explicit calling conventions in the source. Because `std::fpos::seekpos()` isn't dllexported, we can freely remove it. (The only mentions of `seekpos` in the dllexport surface are for the different `std::basic_streambuf::seekpos()`, which conveniently also demonstrates how it takes and returns `std::fpos`.) ``` D:\GitHub\STL\out\x64\out\bin\amd64>dumpbin /exports msvcp140d_oss.dll | rg "\bseekpos\b" 1206 4B5 00053D70 ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z = ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z (protected: virtual class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet> __cdecl std::basic_streambuf<char,struct std::char_traits<char> >::seekpos(class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet>,int)) 1207 4B6 00053DB0 ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@GU?$char_traits@G@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z = ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@GU?$char_traits@G@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z (protected: virtual class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet> __cdecl std::basic_streambuf<unsigned short,struct std::char_traits<unsigned short> >::seekpos(class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet>,int)) 1208 4B7 00053DF0 ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@_WU?$char_traits@_W@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z = ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@_WU?$char_traits@_W@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z (protected: virtual class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet> __cdecl std::basic_streambuf<wchar_t,struct std::char_traits<wchar_t> >::seekpos(class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet>,int)) ```

@std

Boost stopped using `_FPOSOFF` when boostorg/iostreams@7c2592c was merged on 2016-09-16. I've verified that this shipped in Boost 1.63.0 on 2016-12-26. We deprecated `std::fpos::seekpos()` with MSVC-PR-132953 merged on 2018-07-18. (We first noticed the problem when MSVC-PR-115404 was merged on 2018-04-11.) Boost stopped using it when boostorg/iostreams#57 was merged on 2018-04-20. I've verified that this shipped in Boost 1.69.0 on 2018-12-12. Note that while the `std::fpos` type appears in the parameter types and return types of dllexported functions, `std::fpos` is not dllexported itself, as indicated by the lack of explicit calling conventions in the source. Because `std::fpos::seekpos()` isn't dllexported, we can freely remove it. (The only mentions of `seekpos` in the dllexport surface are for the different `std::basic_streambuf::seekpos()`, which conveniently also demonstrates how it takes and returns `std::fpos`.) ``` D:\GitHub\STL\out\x64\out\bin\amd64>dumpbin /exports msvcp140d_oss.dll | rg "\bseekpos\b" 1206 4B5 00053D70 ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z = ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z (protected: virtual class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet> __cdecl std::basic_streambuf<char,struct std::char_traits<char> >::seekpos(class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet>,int)) 1207 4B6 00053DB0 ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@GU?$char_traits@G@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z = ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@GU?$char_traits@G@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z (protected: virtual class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet> __cdecl std::basic_streambuf<unsigned short,struct std::char_traits<unsigned short> >::seekpos(class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet>,int)) 1208 4B7 00053DF0 ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@_WU?$char_traits@_W@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z = ?seekpos@?$basic_streambuf@_WU?$char_traits@_W@std@@@std@@Meaa?AV?$fpos@U_Mbstatet@@@2@V32@H@Z (protected: virtual class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet> __cdecl std::basic_streambuf<wchar_t,struct std::char_traits<wchar_t> >::seekpos(class std::fpos<struct _Mbstatet>,int)) ```

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Remove call to nonexistent member seekpos() of std::fpos #58

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Compile error in iostreams\detail\config\fpos.hpp because std::fpos<>::seekpos() is absent in VS 15.8 Preview 4 #60

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Warnings when building Windows desktop with newer MSVC and Boost rstudio/rstudio#3140

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The member std::fpos::seekpos() is non-Standard sergey-shandar/getboost#44

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