gcc bug?

From:
Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 22 May 2011 01:32:20 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID:
<ir9p34$odp$2@reader1.panix.com>
I've been working with gcc 4.6 with C++ doing some templates exercises

I seem to have some unexplained behavior which might be a bug, or maybe
I'm ignorant.

First - let me give you a link for my code

http://www.nylxs.com/docs/linklist.tgz

specifically, I wrote a program to test my templates that create a linked
list class. There is a simple library to do some statistics on the list
members. It is doing a double delete core dump in a section of code that
I see no reason for a destructor call. It didn't do this for a simpler
version of the template argument call.

ddd ./test_del2
test_del2.cpp:84

79 for( i=0; i < 100; ++i){
80 std::cout << "index " << i << "-------------------------------
\n";
81 tally = new chainlist::List<stats::Distribution<int> >;
82 stats::take_tally<int>(a[i], tally );
83 std::cout << "Creating Tally " << std::endl;
84 tallies->insert(*tally);
85 std::cout << "inserted population figures for index " << i <<
"-------------------------------\n";
86 delete tally;
87
88 //visual inspection of population data to make sure the resiults work
89 // std::cout << "visual inspection of population data to make sure the results work" << std::endl;

breaking on line 84 and the stepping through

263 void List<T>::insert ( T val )
264 {
265 if(!front()){
266 Node<T> * tmp = new Node<T>(val);
267 front(tmp);
268 endd(tmp);
269 cursor(tmp);
270 sizeup();
271 return;
272 }else{
273 Node<T> * tmp = new Node<T>(val, endd());
274 // endd()->next(tmp); // redundant
275 endd(tmp);
276 cursor(tmp);
277 sizeup();
278 return;
279 }
280 } /* --- end of method List<T>::insert ----

/home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/linklist.h:265
is the next line

on line 266 is where it seems to be doing weird stuff

home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/linklist.h:266

it calls the correct constructor for the node object
/home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/linklist.h:82
81 Node<unk>::Node(unk val, Node<unk> *item_to_link_to){
82 value(val);
83 if(!item_to_link_to){
84 next_ = 0;
85 }
86
87 else{
88 next(item_to_link_to->next());
89 item_to_link_to->next(this);
90 }
91 }

I the calls the accessory method value() from the list class

108 }
109
110 template<class unk>
111 void Node<unk>::value(unk val){
112 value_ = new unk(val);
113 }
114
/home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/linklist.h:112

it returns nomally

81 Node<unk>::Node(unk val, Node<unk> *item_to_link_to){
82 value(val);
83 if(!item_to_link_to){
84 next_ = 0;
85 }
86
87 else{
88 next(item_to_link_to->next());
89 item_to_link_to->next(this);
90 }
91 }
92 chainlist::Node<chainlist::List<stats::Distribution<int> > >::Node (this=0x809f488, val=..., item_to_link_to=0x0) at /home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/linklist.h:83

then it calls for the List destructor, I have no idea way

373 template<class T>
374 List<T>::~List<T>(){
375 remove_all();
376 // std::cout << "Deleted All*************" << __LINE__ << std::endl;
377 }
378
(gdb) ptype List
Type chainlist::List<stats::Distribution<int> > has no component named List.
(gdb) *** glibc detected *** /home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/test_del2: double free or corruption (out): 0x0809f460 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7d9150b]
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7d92de4]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6d)[0xb7d95fdd]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZdlPv+0x1f)[0xb7f7c87f]
/home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/test_del2[0x804b4a4]
/home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/test_del2[0x804b2c6]
/home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/test_del2[0x804aa30]
/home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/test_del2[0x804987d]
/home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/test_del2[0x80498f0]
/home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/test_del2[0x8048d42]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe)[0xb7d3aace]
/home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/test_del2[0x8048961]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-0804d000 r-xp 00000000 08:12 270203586 /home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/test_del2
0804d000-0804e000 r--p 00004000 08:12 270203586 /home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/test_del2
0804e000-0804f000 rw-p 00005000 08:12 270203586 /home/ruben/cplus/link_list_template_mysql/test_del2
0804f000-080b2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
b7c00000-b7c21000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b7c21000-b7d00000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
b7d22000-b7d24000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b7d24000-b7e7d000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 36311 /lib/libc-2.10.1.so
b7e7d000-b7e7e000 ---p 00159000 08:02 36311 /lib/libc-2.10.1.so
b7e7e000-b7e80000 r--p 00159000 08:02 36311 /lib/libc-2.10.1.so
b7e80000-b7e81000 rw-p 0015b000 08:02 36311 /lib/libc-2.10.1.so
b7e81000-b7e84000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b7e84000-b7ea0000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 910019 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7ea0000-b7ea1000 r--p 0001b000 08:02 910019 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7ea1000-b7ea2000 rw-p 0001c000 08:02 910019 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7ea2000-b7ec9000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 36319 /lib/libm-2.10.1.so
b7ec9000-b7eca000 r--p 00027000 08:02 36319 /lib/libm-2.10.1.so
b7eca000-b7ecb000 rw-p 00028000 08:02 36319 /lib/libm-2.10.1.so
b7ecb000-b7faf000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 348377 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.16
b7faf000-b7fb3000 r--p 000e3000 08:02 348377 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.16
b7fb3000-b7fb4000 rw-p 000e7000 08:02 348377 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.16
b7fb4000-b7fbb000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b7fde000-b7fe0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b7fe0000-b7ffe000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 36304 /lib/ld-2.10.1.so
b7ffe000-b7fff000 r--p 0001d000 08:02 36304 /lib/ld-2.10.1.so
b7fff000-b8000000 rw-p 0001e000 08:02 36304 /lib/ld-2.10.1.so
bffeb000-c0000000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0xffffe430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) delete 7
(gdb)

I've rattled my brain on this and can't explain it

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