Re: [boost] Re: [ptr_container] memory corruption in ptr_set test

From: Jonathan Wakely (cow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-13 04:43:05

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:39:27PM -0400, Caleb Epstein wrote:

> I assume it is due to the runtime zeroing out memory after it is
> freed, so the vtable of this object is overwritten.

This sounds like what I've been seeing with GCC 4 for some time:

http://lists.boost.org/boost/2005/05/26098.php

I don't yet know if this is a GCC4 miscompilation bug or something wrong
in the library or the tests.

jon

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