Re: [boost] [Serialization] Bizarre bug

From: Wang Yun (a_hao_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-21 02:34:25

I Tried this with VC2005 Pro on Windows XP SP2, in both debug and 
release mode, it's OK, doesn't crash.

Wang Yun

Robert Ramey wrote:
> After a cursory examination, I'm inclined to suspect this is a
> manifestation of a compiler bug.  Could someone check this
> with another compiler?
>
> Robert Ramey
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> Jarl Lindrud wrote:
>   
>> Felipe Magno de Almeida <felipe.m.almeida <at> gmail.com> writes:
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>>     
>>> On 8/19/06, Jarl Lindrud <jlindrud <at> hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> RCF, a C++ middleware framework, supports using Boost Serialization
>>>> for serialization of data structures. One of my user's reported a
>>>> serialization bug to me, which I finally boiled down into the
>>>> following piece of code:
>>>>         
>>> Why there is so many dereferencing of null pointers in the example?
>>> Aren't such code illegal and relying in undefined behavior?
>>>
>>>       
>> The compiler doesn't care about derefencing of null pointers, that's
>> a runtime issue. The point is that the bug is being triggered by code
>> that is never executed.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jarl.
>>
>>
>>
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