Re: [reSIProcate] VS2005 crashing with DUM
On 10/23/07 11:00 PM, Adam Roach wrote:
david Butcher wrote:
auto_ptr is not compatible with virtual destructors. that may be the odd bit.
What?
Let me be more explicit.
Stroustrup [1] doesn't mention anything about this in his treatment of
auto_ptr. In fact, his examples include putting the base class of
polymorphic objects into auto_ptrs -- which is going to lead to improper
release of resources without virtual destructors.
Also, extensive searches on Google failed to turn anything up that might
be interpreted as a general prohibition against using auto_ptr with
objects that have virtual destructors.
In fact, the only thing I turned up has to do with a really obscure bug
in Visual C++ 8.0, apparently having to do with errant coercion paths
[2]; it sound like it impacts all virtual methods, not just destructors.
It should be noted that the code that causes these problems shouldn't
compile under real C++ compilers (although I suppose there's a chance
that this coercion path is preferred by the compiler over another
implicit path that other compilers use for the specific code in question
-- meaning it would compile in both environments, but trigger the
"virtual methods crash" bug described in the article I cite).
Finally, I've demonstrated to myself that things work just fine with
auto_ptr and virtual destructors under g++ in the trivial case with a
tiny program:
#include <iostream>
#include <memory>
class A
{
public:
A(){}
virtual ~A();
};
A::~A()
{
std::cout << "A is going away" << std::endl;
}
class B : public A
{
public:
B(){}
virtual ~B();
};
B::~B()
{
std::cout << "B is going away" << std::endl;
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
std::auto_ptr<A> ptr(new B());
ptr.reset();
return 0;
}
So, david: could you please clarify what you mean? It's not clear to me,
and I've had a number of developers send me private mail asking, "is
this right?"
/a
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[1] Soustrup, Bjarne, "The C++ Programming Language", 3rd Edition,
Addison Wesley, 1997
[2] Bottom of page:
<http://www.codeproject.com/Feature/SubtleBugs.asp?select=2053685&df=100&forumid=343280&exp=0&fr=183.5>