FW: ostringstream: problems with str() function

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> 
>  Hi,
>  
>  I had a crash in our software, which occured randomly. The valgrind logs
>  and the stack trace pointed to a code snippet, which uses ostringstream
>  for data conversion. (int -> string, float -> string, double-> string).
>  After changing the ostringstream conversion to sprintf, the crash in the
>  application no more occured and the valgrind log was clear as well. It
>  seems the problem is in the str() function of ostringstream.
>  Consider the following test program in order to reproduce the bug:
>  
>  #include <iostream>
>  #include <strstream>
>  #include <sstream>
>  #include <vector>
>  #include <string>
>  
>  int main()
>  {
>  
>          std::vector<std::string> v;
>          {
>                  std::ostringstream sstr;
>                  sstr << (double)1.12;
>                  v.push_back(sstr.str());
>          }
>  
>          return 1;
>  }
> 
>  
>  The problem occured with gcc 3.4.2 and 3.4.4 compilers with -O2
>  optimization. Test program had been running both on 32 and 64 bit
>  architecture.
>  With O1 and O0 no problems was logged by valgrind. 3.2 and 4.0 compilers
>  the program was bug-free as well.
>  $ g++ -g -O2 -D__STL_DEBUG -DDEBUG test.c
>  
>  valgrind tool signs the following problems:
>  ==5443== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
>  ==5443==    at 0x11CD3445: std::string::string(std::string const&) (in
>  /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.7)
>  ==5443==    by 0x401907: std::vector<std::string,
>  std::allocator<std::string>
>  >::_M_insert_aux(__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<std::string*,
>  std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> > >, std::string
>  const&) (new:92)
>  ==5443==    by 0x40152E: main (stl_vector.h:330)
>  ==5443==
>  ==5443== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
>  ==5443==    at 0x401585: main (basic_string.h:215)
>  ==5443==
>  ==5443== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
>  ==5443==    at 0x401427: main (basic_string.h:215)
>  ==5443==
>  ==5443== ERROR SUMMARY: 3 errors from 3 contexts (suppressed: 10 from 5)
>  ==5443== malloc/free: in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
>  ==5443== malloc/free: 3 allocs, 3 frees, 574 bytes allocated.
>  ==5443== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
>  ==5443== No malloc'd blocks -- no leaks are possible.
> 
>  Do you have any idea for this issue?
>  
>  Thanks and regards,
>          Laszlo Jordan
> 

probably a library version mismatch, libstdc++.so.6.0.7 belongs to GCC 
4.1.0.

regards,
lajos