AIX (Was: Boost.Thread memory leak reported)

Rich Cook wrote:

Ah, but does it work on AIX? :-) Sorry, I couldn't resist. (My posts are getting ignored, so I assume nobody uses boost on AIX.

This might well be the case. Have you tried replacing the problematic get_ptr_impl()->T::~T(); construct at line 388 of optional.hpp with get_ptr_impl()->~T(); or perhaps get_ptr_impl()->~value_type();