Re: [Rdkit-devel] Failing tests in Visual Studio build

[Greg L. <gre...@gm...>]

Hi Juuso,

Thanks for letting us know about this.

-greg


On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:28 AM Juuso Lehtivarjo <
juu...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Just wanted to inform all Visual Studio users of some weirdness that
> we encountered after updating Visual Studio 2017 to version 15.7.2,
> that was, on release config, the following tests failed:
>
> 1>     53 - pyChemReactions (SEGFAULT)
> 1>     60 - pyFilterCatalog (SEGFAULT)
> 1>     72 - pyMolDescriptors (SEGFAULT)
> 1>    114 - pyGraphMolWrap (SEGFAULT)
>
> What caused the segfaults was direct touching of the __doc__ property
> of the python wrapper functions. The underlying reason for this was
> that at O2 level optimization, boost::python produced corrupted
> wrappers, apparently due to some changes in the VS optimizer. There is
> now a PR in boost/python for this issue at
> https://github.com/boostorg/python/pull/208.
>
> My setup was Python 3.6.5 and Boost 1.67.0.
>
> Cheers,
> Juuso
>
>
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