Bug 110145 – electric fence says there's a memory leak in libstdc++-v3-3.3.6 when using ios::unitbuf

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Yuri Karaban 2005-10-22 07:45:00 UTC]

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#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int
main ()
{
  cout.setf(ios::unitbuf);
  cout << "Hello World" << endl;
}
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If to link this simple program with -lefence (Electric Fence).
Electric fence reporting that there is a memory leak:

Electric Fence: ptr=0xb7c47ff8 size=8 alloced from UNKNOWN (use #include
"efence.h")(0) not freed
ElectricFence Aborting: 
Electric Fence: EF_delFrame(): Found non free'd pointers.

Illegal instruction

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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[Comment 1 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2005-12-12 07:50:18 UTC]

Upstream doesn't care about 3.3 anymore, so we'll have a hard time fixing this
probably.