http://bugs.orocos.org/show_bug.cgi?id=895

Peter Soetens <peter [..] ...> changed:

What |Removed |Added
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Component|TaskBrowser |OCL
Version|unspecified |2.5.0
Product|OCL |Toolchain
Target Milestone|--- |next-bugfix

http://bugs.orocos.org/show_bug.cgi?id=895

Peter Soetens <peter [..] ...> changed:

What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
CC| |peter [..] ...
Resolution| |FIXED

--- Comment #1 from Peter Soetens <peter [..] ...> 2011-10-21 16:03:25 CEST ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Created attachment 729 [details]
> check if result is empty after boost::split
>
> There seems to be a bug or "undocumented feature" in Boost 1.44 that lets
> boost::split return an empty vector if the input string is empty:
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4751
>
> This could lead to problems in the TaskBrowser and other OCL components, that
> use boost::split to parse commands or names of task objects and do not check
> for emptiness. At least in the TaskBrowser the stringToService method gets
> called with an empty argument when an empty command is entered. I don't know
> exactly if this is related, but some time ago I chased some segfaults where the
> backtraces showed that they had something to do with boost::split.
>
> I attached a patch that adds an check after each occurrence of boost::split in
> OCL.

Thanks for taking care of this ! Applied on toolchain-2.5.

Peter