[Bf-committers] Re: Booleans crash with MSVC8.0

[Austin Benesh]

Austin Benesh wrote:
> I submitted this to the bugtracker first, but Ton told me to submit it 
> here instead. Anyway, I found that booleans work with almost all other 
> builds except those built with MSVC8.0. After extensive debugging I 
> found that the function vertex_it.Done() was constantly returning 1, 
> no matter what the iterator input was. I am a little confused because 
> this kind of error should cause a crash on all systems. How come it 
> doesn't seem to cause problems with any other build? Any help would be 
> great.
>  
>  - Austin
Ha! I solved my own problem. The problem lay with the stupid 
vector::iterator stuff. It was trying to dereference an empty iterator, 
so I fixed it and am uploading the patch to the tracker. One statement I 
would like to make, though: those of you who are using std::vector in 
your code, please debug it first before submitting it as final. A lot of 
bugs in this template class go unnoticed until whiney compilers (like 
MSVC 8.0) throw a fit over the smallest minute detail. Thank you.

 - Austin