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

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-13 10:00:49

"Jonathan Wakely" <cow_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:20050513094305.GA29478_at_compsoc.man.ac.uk...
| 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.

there was definitely something wrong in the library: ptr_list::unique() leaked 
like crasy.

the cvs is updated.

-Thorsten