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Re: Throwing exception in constructor causes segfault
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at attbi dot com>
- Cc: libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:56:48 +0100
- Subject: Re: Throwing exception in constructor causes segfault
- References: <20020223150023.A3639@attbi.com>
Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com> writes:
|> I don't know how this stuff works, but I am guessing
|> that for some reason, during the stack unwinding, the
|> destructor is being called on *p, even though it
|> is not fully constructed, and this is causing problems.
|>
|> Does anyone have any ideas about this?
The problem is that operator delete[]() is receiving a different address
than returned by operator new[](). It looks like it is not adjusted for
the cookie.
Andreas.
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