[C++-sig] Re: boost::python::range and duplicate comdat under MSVC 6

[Raoul Gough]

Raoul Gough <RaoulGough at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

[snip]
> a bug that seems to crop up whenever a module defines two or more
> instances of boost::python::range with the same call policies. It
> results in a link-time error like the following:
>
> iterator.obj : fatal error LNK1179: invalid or corrupt file: duplicate comdat
> "?registration@?$shared_ptr_from_python at U?$iterator_range at U?$return_value_policy at Ureturn_by_value@python at boost@@$D"

I have some more information about this problem (which, if I didn't
make it clear before, does *not* depend on the indexing_v2 code). It
seems to be a genuine MSVC6 bug to do with static member variables of
templates, and AFAICT is casued by an _atexit handler that the
compiler generates whether or not the static object has a non-trivial
destructor. I'm pretty sure it is the same problem reported in a few
2000/2001-vintage usenet postings to microsoft.public.vc.*:

http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8a05c82c4ffee280 (look for P78)
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b462a38bc2c132f7
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2f0b2d7ab9a2485f

In our case it's being triggered by the static member variable in
shared_ptr_from_python (see coverter/shared_ptr_from_python.hpp).
Seems pretty fatal to me, since (AFAIK) a static object is necessary
for the type registration scheme to work. I'm not going to bother
trying to fix this.

-- 
Raoul Gough.
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