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From: "mw_triad at users dot sourceforge.net" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>
To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: [Bug libstdc++/64399] New: g++ does not diagnose when upcasting owning pointer (e.g. unique_ptr) with non-virtual destructor
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-64399-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/> (raw)

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64399

            Bug ID: 64399
           Summary: g++ does not diagnose when upcasting owning pointer
                    (e.g. unique_ptr) with non-virtual destructor
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.8.3
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: libstdc++
          Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
          Reporter: mw_triad at users dot sourceforge.net

Consider the following code:

  #include <memory>

  struct X { ~X(); };
  struct Y : X { ~Y(); };

  std::unique_ptr<Y> f();
  void g()
  {
    std::unique_ptr<X> x = f();
  }

This code is almost certainly broken; ownership of the constructed Y is
transferred to an owning unique_ptr in a way that will most likely (in general;
"always" in this specific example) result in Y's destructor never being called.

It seems pretty silly that there is no diagnostic for this. There ought to be a
warning in unique_ptr's conversion operator converting from Derived to Base if
~Base is not virtual. (Arranging at the library level to trip
-Wnon-virtual-dtor seems logical.)


             reply	other threads:[~2014-12-23 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-23 22:58 mw_triad at users dot sourceforge.net [this message]
2014-12-23 23:33 ` [Bug libstdc++/64399] " redi at gcc dot gnu.org
2014-12-23 23:37 ` mw_triad at users dot sourceforge.net
2014-12-24  1:37 ` thiago at kde dot org
2014-12-24  8:59 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org
2014-12-24  9:01 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org
2014-12-24 10:36 ` glisse at gcc dot gnu.org
2014-12-24 16:59 ` mw_triad at users dot sourceforge.net
2021-08-31 18:20 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org

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