Re: Possible memory leak?
Pep wrote:
I have recently eradicated a lot of memory leaks in a very old C++
source set. However, whilst they were all fairly easy to resolve, I am
confused by the last one. This seems to be related to throwing a
std::exception with a string object.
This is the test program
=============================================================================
#include <sstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdexcept>
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
std::ostringstream os;
os << "Test string";
throw std::out_of_range(os.str());
return(0);
}
=============================================================================
and this is the output from valgrind when I run it
[snip]
If I remove the throw, then valgrind says everything is fine. So my
question is whether this is expected behavior from the throw and if
not, how do I solve it?
The following is valgrind-clean on my platform:
#include <sstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdexcept>
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
try {
std::ostringstream os;
os << "Test string";
throw std::out_of_range(os.str());
}
catch ( std::exception const & e ) {
std::cerr << "exception propagated into main: "
<< e.what() << "\n";
}
catch ( ... ) {
std::cerr << "unidentified thing caught in main.\n";
}
return(0);
}
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Kai-Uwe Bux
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