RE: Problem with allocator in a multithreaded application.

[lrtaylor at micron dot com]

Just a shot in the dark, but did you build it with the -pthread option
(for both compiling and linking)?

Thanks,
Lyle

-----Original Message-----
From: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org [mailto:gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org] On
Behalf Of Nathan Zorn
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:58 PM
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Problem with allocator in a multithreaded application.

Maybe this should go to libstdc++, but I will try this list first.   I 
am developing a multithreaded
application that uses a lot of the std containers and streams.  Since 
the platform  I am developing
for is redhat 7.2 , I initially used the compiler that is shipped with 
that distribution (2.96).  This
version had its problems, so I decided to start using gcc version 3.3.2 
(the latest at the time).  I
built this version with only the --enable-threads configure switch.   I 
released a stable version of
my application with this build.   Recently I switched development 
machines and attempted
to rebuild the gcc compiler (again only with --enable-threads configure 
option).  Ever since this rebuild my application has had strange memory 
leak problems.  It will run for awhile then consume all
the machines memory resources.  This is the same version of my code that

ran fine before and
the same version of gcc (only rebuilt on the new machine).  Since this 
version of gcc didn't work
I also tried gcc 3.4.0 with the same result.  I have ran this 
application through valgrind with
no reports of problems except in the std::allocator code.  I found this 
in the FAQ which explains that it isn't a leak but just the behavior of 
the basic allocator.  So, I created a small application [1] that when it

is run through valgrind single threaded its fine, but multithreaded it 
definitely
seems to leak memory.  Also in order to elliminate that it is my code, I

built my application
with the Intel compiler and the memory leak didn't occur, even after 
three days of running.


Any suggestions and help is appreciated.  I really don't want to start 
using the intel compiler instead of gcc.

Thanks

[1] http://bfs.itlab.musc.edu/~nathan/stl_vector.C