Re: libstdc++/8127: cout << cin.rdbuf() causes infinite loop

Re: libstdc++/8127: cout << cin.rdbuf() causes infinite loop

[paolo]

Synopsis: cout << cin.rdbuf() causes infinite loop

State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
State-Changed-By: paolo
State-Changed-When: Sun Oct  6 05:03:04 2002
State-Changed-Why:
    Confirmed. This is actually a duplicate of c++/6745, but I'm
    not closing it since some additional information is provided.

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Re: libstdc++/8127: cout << cin.rdbuf() causes infinite loop

[paolo]

Synopsis: cout << cin.rdbuf() causes infinite loop

State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->closed
State-Changed-By: paolo
State-Changed-When: Tue Nov 19 01:36:29 2002
State-Changed-Why:
    I'm closing it: by now we understand those issues, which are
    fixed as far as correctness in concerned.

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libstdc++/8127: cout << cin.rdbuf() causes infinite loop

[lennox]

>Number:         8127
>Category:       libstdc++
>Synopsis:       cout << cin.rdbuf() causes infinite loop
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Oct 02 13:56:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     lennox@cs.columbia.edu
>Release:        gcc-3.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
sparc-sun-solaris2.8
>Description:
The attached trivial implementation of 'cat' goes into an infinite loop when compiled with GCC 3.1.

This may be another instance of bug libstdc++/8071, interacting with libstdc++/7744.  However, it seems to me that this is a much more significant example of the bug.

The problem arises in basic_streambuf::__copy_streambufs.
This function calls __sbout->in_avail() to get the number of characters that it can read.  If this returns 0, the function loops forever calling  __sbout->sputn(__sbin->gptr(), 0).

This is a regression from gcc 2.95.2, which executes this code correctly.

(I haven't tested this code with GCC 3.3 mainline, but I don't see anything in GNATS or viewcvs which would indicate that this code has changed since 3.1.)
>How-To-Repeat:
Compile the attached program, and run it with standard input coming from somewhere.  E.g.:

grandcentral $ g++-2.95.2 -Wall -g -O2  -o test-rdbuf test-rdbuf.cxx
grandcentral $ ./test-rdbuf < /etc/nodename 
grandcentral.cs.columbia.edu
grandcentral $ g++ -Wall -g -O2  -o test-rdbuf test-rdbuf.cxx
grandcentral $ ./test-rdbuf < /etc/nodename 
^C
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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