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[Bug libstdc++/27079] New: Memory leak in std::string?..


Am I doing something wrong here? Or is it really a memory leak in STL?... 

#include <string>
#include <vector>
int max = 4000000;
void bad() {
    std::vector<std::string*> v;
    for (int x = 0; x < max; x++) {
        v.push_back(new std::string("test"));
    }
    for (uint x = 0; x < max; x++) {
        delete v.at(x);
    }
}
void good() {
    std::vector<std::string*> v;
    for (int x = 0; x < max; x++) {
        v.push_back(new std::string("test"));
        delete v.at(x);
    }
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    bad();  // this is not good...
    //good(); // this works perfectly
    //usleep(20000 * 1000); // stop here so that we have time to check the RSS
    return 0;
}

If you check the RSS before exiting (enable usleep) you see that when running
bad() the heap size of the process doesn't decrease (stays aroud ~300Mbs for
me). 

Compiled as: g++ test.cpp -o test

gcc -v:

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/specs
Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.4.4-r1/work/gcc-3.4.4/configure
--prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.4
--includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/include
--datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4
--mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/man
--infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/info
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/include/g++-v3
--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec
--enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib --disable-checking
--disable-werror --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-multilib
--disable-libgcj --enable-languages=c,c++,f77 --enable-shared
--enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.8)


-- 
           Summary: Memory leak in std::string?..
           Product: gcc
           Version: 3.4.4
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: libstdc++
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: sakovacs at freemail dot hu
 GCC build triplet: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
  GCC host triplet: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
GCC target triplet: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27079


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