c++/10882: passing and return by reference of char pointer corrupted on x86_64
dirkjan@magma-da.com
dirkjan@magma-da.com
Tue May 20 13:07:00 GMT 2003
>Number: 10882
>Category: c++
>Synopsis: passing and return by reference of char pointer corrupted on x86_64
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: wrong-code
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue May 20 12:36:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: dirkjan@magma-da.com
>Release: gcc-3.2.2 and gcc-3.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
Reading specs from /home/dirkjan/compiler/opteron/gcc-3.2.2/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-u
nknown-linux-gnu/3.2.2/specs
Configured with: ./configure --prefix=/home/dirkjan/compiler/opteron/gcc-3.2.2 -
-disable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2.2
>Description:
compilation of the following source results in overwriting the char pointer of name. using the second_function there is no problem as well after interchanging the order of the two statements in get_string
include <iostream>
using namespace std;
char* name;
char* ret_string="returned string";
void* first_function(void **data)
{
*data=ret_string;
}
void* second_function(int *data)
{
data=0;
}
void* third_function(void **data)
{
*data=0;
}
void get_string(){
char* popped_name;
int number;
first_function((void**)&popped_name);
//second_function(&number);
third_function((void**)&number);
name=popped_name;
}
main()
{
cout<<"start test"<<endl;
name="initial_name";
cout<<"name is "<<name<<endl;
get_string();
cout<<"name is after functions "<<name<<endl;
}
>How-To-Repeat:
this does only fail on the opteron/x86_64
compilation and run will show the last cout not printing name
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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