Segmentation fault

From:
Ioannis Vranos <ivranos@no.spam.nospamfreemail.gr>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:45:14 +0300
Message-ID:
<gc4m2q$2rr2$1@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr>
The following code sometimes runs OK in my system, sometimes it produces
a segmentation fault (access to inaccessible memory). I filled it as a
bug of GCC, but am posting it here in case I did something wrong.

The segmentation fault happens when the SomeClass copy constructor is used:

#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
#include <vector>
#include <list>
#include <cstddef>
#include <algorithm>

class SomeClass
{
     public:
     typedef std::vector<int> TypeVector;

     TypeVector vec;

     enum { VectorSize= 100 };

     public:

     SomeClass();
     SomeClass(const SomeClass &);

     bool operator<(const SomeClass &argSomeClass) const
     {
         return vec[0]< argSomeClass.vec[0];
     }
};

int main()
{
     using namespace std;

     srand(time(0));

     const size_t SIZE=1000;

     typedef vector<SomeClass> Vector;
     typedef list<SomeClass> List;

     cout<< "\nCreating vector with "<< SIZE<< " elements..."<< flush;
     Vector vec(SIZE);

     cout<<" Done!\n\n"<< flush;

     List lis;

     cout<< "Filling list with vector elements..."<< flush;

     for(Vector::size_type i= 0; i< vec.size(); ++i)
         lis.push_back(vec[i]);

     cout<< " Done!\n\n"<< flush;

     clock_t timeBeginVector, timeEndVector, timeBeginList, timeEndList;

     cout<< "Timing the sorting of the vector..."<< flush;

     // Diagnostic code line. Should output 1000 and 100
     // cout<< endl<< vec.size()<< endl<< vec[0].vec.size()<< endl;

     timeBeginVector= clock();

     sort(vec.begin(), vec.end());

     timeEndVector= clock();

     cout<< " Done!\n\n"<< flush;

     cout<< "Timing the sorting of the list..."<< flush;

     timeBeginList= clock();

     lis.sort();

     timeEndList= clock();

     cout<< " Done!\n\n"<< flush;

     cout<< "The sorting of the vector took "
         << static_cast<double>((timeEndVector- timeBeginVector))/
CLOCKS_PER_SEC
         << " seconds\n\n";

     cout<< "The sorting of the list took "
         << static_cast<double>((timeEndList- timeBeginList))/
CLOCKS_PER_SEC
         << " seconds\n\n";
}

SomeClass::SomeClass():vec(VectorSize)
{
     using namespace std;

     for(TypeVector::size_type i= 0; i< vec.size(); ++i)
         vec[i]= rand();

     sort(vec.begin(), vec.end());
}

SomeClass::SomeClass(const SomeClass &):vec(VectorSize)
{
     using namespace std;

     for(TypeVector::size_type i= 0; i< vec.size(); ++i)
         vec[i]= rand();

     sort(vec.begin(), vec.end());
}

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