Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Test] valgrind complains about invalid reads

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Test] valgrind complains about invalid reads
From: joel falcou (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-17 16:37:56

Scott Banachowski wrote:
> By defeating the purpose, I mean it forces code like the following:
>
> if( ut_detail::test_id_2_unit_type( tu.second->p_id ) == tut_suite )
>     delete  static_cast<test_suite const*>(tu.second);
> else
>     delete  static_cast<test_case const*>(tu.second);
>
> A virtual base case simplifies this code (especially if in the future other classes are added, or in the case of replacement allocator it does the right thing).
>   
I'm jumping in the wagon but this very piece of code leads to a 
"incorrect free" on Snow Leopard using g++ 4.2.1 Apple.
Maybe it is related to the virtual matter

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