Re: lifetime of objects (here: strings)
Stefan Ram schrieb:
Could a malicious programmer somehow construct code that is
accepted by the compiler, does not use ?new? or ?delete?, and
still has either a memory leak or a use of or a reference to
an object that already has ceased to exist?
int& badFunction()
{
int i;
return i;
}
This sometimes happens with local arrays used for c-style strings.
The variable is gone, but the function returns a reference or pointer
referring to it.
~~
Maybe using the property that the lifetime extension for
temporaries is not transitive?
::std::string const & c( a + b );
What do I have to do now with ?c? to intentionally create a
bug where this lack of transitivity matters?
std::string const& bad =
std::max( std::string("bad"), std::string("code") );
Lifetime is extended only by direct initialization of a reference by a
temporary.
So the lifetime of a reference, that is bound only indirectly to a
temporary through other references, is not extended. Do you mean that by
transitivity?
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