libstdc++/6246: gcc generates code that memleaks

Carlo Wood carlo@alinoe.com
Sun Apr 14 19:37:00 GMT 2002


On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:29:34AM +0200, Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote:
> hmm, this is very strange, as it is NOT gcc's fault, but mine.
> 
> *buf += str.str(); <--  this freazes the buffer and returns a
>                         pointer to it. the caller is now
>                         responsible for freeing it with delete().

No it doesn't, not since 3.0 which is conforming to the standard
and where str() returns a std::string.  Use std::stringstream,
not std::strstream.

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>



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