How to add more than 20 transitions to a state in Boost::Statechart?

Question

I have to admit that I'm rather new to C++ and Boost Statecharts. I played around a little bit with the Statechart library and wanted to construct some "bigger" statemachines.

I give a very simple example of my problem. Lets assume a statemachine with only one state and a lot of self-transitions. How to construct something like that? Everything above of 20 transitions is rejected by the gcc(4.5.2) compiler ("wrong number of template arguments (21, should be 20)")

Here is some sample code:

#include <boost/statechart/event.hpp>
#include <boost/statechart/state_machine.hpp>
#include <boost/statechart/simple_state.hpp>
#include <boost/statechart/transition.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <boost/mpl/list.hpp>
namespace sc = boost::statechart;

struct MyEvent1: sc::event<MyEvent1> {};
struct MyEvent2: sc::event<MyEvent2> {};
//...
struct MyEvent21: sc::event<MyEvent21> {};

struct MyState;
struct Statemachine: sc::state_machine<Statemachine, MyState> {};

struct MyState: sc::simple_state<MyState, Statemachine> {
    typedef boost::mpl::list<
            sc::transition< MyEvent1, MyState >  , 
            sc::transition< MyEvent2, MyState > , 
            //...
            sc::transition< MyEvent21 >     
    > reactions;
};

int main() {
    //..
    return 0;
}

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 07 '12 at 22:00

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Your problem is not actually related to Boost.Statechart, but rather to Boost.MPL, whose typelists you're making use of. From the Boost.MPL docs:

BOOST_MPL_LIMIT_LIST_SIZE is an overridable configuration macro regulating the maximum arity of the list's and list_c's variadic forms. In this implementation of the library, BOOST_MPL_LIMIT_LIST_SIZE has a default value of 20.

It continues:

To override the default limit, define BOOST_MPL_LIMIT_LIST_SIZE to the desired maximum arity rounded up to the nearest multiple of ten before including any library header.

So presumably you'll want the following before any #includes:

#define BOOST_MPL_LIMIT_LIST_SIZE 30

answered May 07 '12 at 22:00

ildjarn

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Of course, an easy way to make sure that it's defined appropriately everywhere is to add `-DBOOST_MPL_LIMIT_LIST_SIZE=30` to the compiler's command line in the appropriate place in the makefile (or whatever you're using to build the project). And make sure that if you're using precompiled headers that they get rebuilt when you change the value. – Michael Burr May 07 '12 at 22:13
@Michael : Agreed, for non-trivial use-cases, `-D` is indeed the way to go over `#define`. – ildjarn May 07 '12 at 22:16
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Thanks for your help! I also had to add the BOOST_MPL_CFG_NO_PREPROCESSED_HEADERS makro. – euschen May 07 '12 at 22:32

How to add more than 20 transitions to a state in Boost::Statechart?

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