Boost test crashes on exit with Clang 4.1 (LLVM 3.1svn)

Question

Consider this simple program:

#include <string>
#include <iostream>

#define BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK
#define BOOST_TEST_MODULE "MyTest"
#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>

using namespace std;

template<char* S>
void Test()
{
    BOOST_REQUIRE("Boom!" != string(S));
}

char bang[] = "Bang!";

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(Boom)
{
    char boom[] = "Boom!";
    Test<bang>();
}

I'm on Mac OS X v10.8.2 (Mountain Lion) and have XCode 4.5 installed.

The program works when compiled with GCC, for example,

gcc test.cpp -lboost_unit_test_framework-mt -lstdc++

but it crashes when compiled with Apple Clang 4.1 (tags/Apple/clang-421.11.65) (based on LLVM 3.1svn)

clang -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ -lc++ test.cpp -lboost_unit_test_framework-mt

I'm using Boost 1.51.0, installed using BREW. Recompiling Boost using Clang does not help.

Is there a solution to this mystery?

./a.out
Running 1 test case...

*** No errors detected
Segmentation fault: 11

gdb ./a.out
GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1822) (Sun Aug  5 03:00:42 UTC 2012)
...
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-apple-darwin"...Reading symbols for shared libraries .... done

(gdb) r
Starting program: /private/tmp/xx/a.out 
Reading symbols for shared libraries +++............................. done
Running 1 test case...

*** No errors detected

Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
Reason: 13 at address: 0x0000000000000000
0x0000000100056c56 in boost::unit_test::test_unit::~test_unit ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x0000000100056c56 in boost::unit_test::test_unit::~test_unit ()
#1  0x000000010002435f in boost::unit_test::master_test_suite_t::~master_test_suite_t ()
#2  0x00000001000244dd in boost::unit_test::framework_impl::~framework_impl ()
#3  0x00007fff96179307 in __cxa_finalize ()
#4  0x00007fff9617af57 in exit ()
#5  0x00007fff944897e8 in start ()

lldb a.out
Current executable set to 'a.out' (x86_64).
(lldb) r
Process 71553 launched: '/private/tmp/xx/a.out' (x86_64)
Running 1 test case...

*** No errors detected
Process 71553 stopped
* thread #1: tid = 0x1c03, 0x0000000100056c56 libboost_unit_test_framework.dylib`boost::unit_test::test_unit::~test_unit() + 86, stop reason = EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=13, address=0x0)
    frame #0: 0x0000000100056c56 libboost_unit_test_framework.dylib`boost::unit_test::test_unit::~test_unit() + 86
libboost_unit_test_framework.dylib`boost::unit_test::test_unit::~test_unit() + 86:
-> 0x100056c56:  lock   
   0x100056c57:  xaddl  %ecx, -8(%rax)
   0x100056c5b:  testl  %ecx, %ecx
   0x100056c5d:  jg     0x100056c68               ; boost::unit_test::test_unit::~test_unit() + 104

clang --version
Apple clang version 4.1 (tags/Apple/clang-421.11.65) (based on LLVM 3.1svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.0
Thread model: posix

Answer 1

Recompiling Boost with the C++11 options does the trick.

./bootstrap.sh --with-toolset=clang --prefix=/usr/local
sudo ./b2 install toolset=clang cxxflags="-std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++" linkflags="-stdlib=libc++" threading=multi

I made a mistake of using just ./b2 install last time but the install step appears to build some libraries before installing them.

Answer 2

I had the same issue than timlukins. I had to do cmake .. -DBoost_USE_STATIC_LIBS=YES. But as I had other issues compiling with boost_timer for instance, I found that it was my include that was not correct.

I had to replace :

#include <boost/test/included/unit_test.hpp>

with:

#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>

It was working fine with gcc and VS13, but not with clang. If it can help...