shared_ptr with no-op deleter

From:
filip.konvicka@googlemail.com
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Wed, 28 Jan 2015 07:19:14 CST
Message-ID:
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{ edited by mod to shorten lines to ~70 chars. -mod }

Hi,

I stumbled upon a problem that I first thought could be a compiler
problem, but since this seems to be happening in both MSVC 2013 and
g++ 4.9.2 I think that maybe my understanding of the standard is not
correct.

Is code below legal?

(For unforgivable reasons, but...) I am creating shared pointers to
a statically-allocated object with a no-op custom deleter. While this
used to work with boost::shared_ptr without a problem, it seems to crash
with std::shared_ptr in the scenario when multiple threads are creating
the shared pointers concurrently. I think I've heard that there is
a subtle difference between std::shared_ptr and boost::shared_ptr
implementation related to the counters allocation, and the crashes I'm
experiencing do seem to appear when a shared pointer gets destroyed (and
the counter reaches zero and - I assume - tries to destroy the counter,
but it looks as if the memory has already been free'd - at least this is
what Valgrind is telling me).

I was unable to create a small repro though; the code below does seem to
work. In my real scenario, the 'getpint' function resides in
a dynamically linked library (but I don't know whether that could be
a contributing factor).

Thanks,
Filip

#include <memory>

typedef std::shared_ptr<int> pint;
pint getpint() {
  static int i = 0;
  return std::shared_ptr<int>(&i, [](int*){ /* nop */ });
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
  std::thread t1([]() {
    for(int x = 0; x<10000000; ++x) {
      getpint();
    }
  });
  std::thread t2([]() {
    for(int x = 0; x<10000000; ++x) {
      getpint();
    }
  });
  t1.join();
  t2.join();
  return 0;
}

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