Re: Safe reuse of allocated storage

From:
Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Wed, 9 Feb 2011 17:24:37 CST
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On Feb 8, 2:37 am, Joshua Maurice <joshuamaur...@gmail.com> wrote:

  #include <new>
  #include <stddef.h>

  class UserspaceAllocator
  {
  public:
    void* alloc(size_t );
    void free(void* );
  };

  int main()
  {
    UserspaceAllocator alloc;

    struct Foo { Foo(int& x) : x_(x) {} int& x_; };

    int x, y;

    void* p = alloc.alloc(sizeof(Foo));
    Foo* foo = new(p) Foo(x);
    foo -> ~Foo();
    alloc.free(p);

    // Line A

    p = alloc.alloc(sizeof(Foo)); // Line B
    foo = new(p) Foo(y); // Line C
    return foo->x_;
  }


Minor correction. The above program also has UB because it reads an
uninitialized int object. My mistake there. Once you fix that by
changing
   int x, y;
to
   int x = 1, y = 2;
then that program ought to have no UB, but it still would under N3225
- 3.8/7, so N3225 - 3.8/7 is a defect.

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