an interesting g++ new/delete bug -- only defining half the set

Martin von Loewis martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de
Wed Aug 26 16:31:00 GMT 1998


> Any thoughts on a productive way to make the compiler see that this is
> happening, and suitably warn about it?

It seems that this should be a Checker application. Purify detects
this kind of stuff and calls it 'non-matching memory deallocation' or
the like.

With proper instrumentation, you can detect it at run time. I doubt
you can detect it at compile time reliably.

Martin



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