The following reply was made to PR libstdc++/7942; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bill Clarke <llib@computer.org>
To: bkoz@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org,
        nobody@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, paolo@gcc.gnu.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: libstdc++/7942: ostream core dump with hex/internal/showbase
	formatted output
Date: 11 Nov 2002 16:47:36 +1100

 On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 14:33, bkoz@gcc.gnu.org wrote:
 >     Can you try this with gcc or gcc-3_2-branch on solaris? I can't reproduce this on linux either. 
 
 i can confirm this on a recent checkout of gcc-3_2-branch (20021110) on
 solaris 2.9, configured with --with-cpu=ultrasparc (also has the same
 effect with same branch but configured without the cpu flag).  gdb stack
 trace is included in the output shown below (gdb 4.17, yes that's old
 but a build of gdb 5.2.1 dumps core when doing the stack trace; *sigh*
 another bug report to do )-:  
 
 note: i've changed the test code: changed line 16 from "cout << 1" to
 "cout << 9"; this makes it clearer that the program is reusing buffers
 (since the string "0x 9" appears in the stack trace, despite the core
 dump occuring during execution of the following "cout << 0").
 
 also note: the stack trace gets lost after level 6.
 
 $ ~/incoming/gcc-cvs/install/bin/g++ -static -g -o iosbug iosbug.cc
 [static so when i run it i'm sure to get the right library]
 
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 (gdb) run
 Starting program: /space/bill/work/tests/iosbug 
 
 0x9
 
 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
 0x43da4 in memcpy ()
     at
 /space/bill/incoming/gcc-cvs/gcc-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/libstdc++-v3/include/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/bits/atomicity.h:89
 (gdb) bt
 #0  0x43da4 in memcpy ()
     at
 /space/bill/incoming/gcc-cvs/gcc-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/libstdc++-v3/include/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/bits/atomicity.h:89
 #1  0x5db74 in
 _ZNSt5__padIcSt11char_traitsIcEE6_S_padERSt8ios_basecPcPKciib (
     __io=@0x1, __fill=58 ':', __news=0xffbff2ba " 9", 
     __olds=0xffbff338 "\210ÿ¿óPÿ¿õ`", __newlen=2, __oldlen=<incomplete
 type>, 
     __num=<incomplete type>)
     at
 /space/bill/incoming/gcc-cvs/gcc-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/char_traits.h:147
 #2  0x584f4 in
 _ZNKSt7num_putIcSt19ostreambuf_iteratorIcSt11char_traitsIcEEE9_M_insertES3_RSt8ios_basecPKci (this=<incomplete type>, 
     __s={<iterator<std::output_iterator_tag,void,void,void,void>> = {}, 
       _M_sbuf = 0x60000000, _M_failed = false}, __io=@0x989e0, __fill=32
 ' ', 
     __ws=0xffbff2b8 "0x 9", __len=2)
     at
 /space/bill/incoming/gcc-cvs/gcc-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/locale_facets.tcc:843
 #3  0x5838c in
 _ZNKSt7num_putIcSt19ostreambuf_iteratorIcSt11char_traitsIcEEE12_M_widen_intES3_RSt8ios_basecPci (this=<incomplete type>, 
     __s={<iterator<std::output_iterator_tag,void,void,void,void>> = {}, 
       _M_sbuf = 0xa000978, _M_failed = 84}, __io=@0x989e0, __fill=32 '
 ', 
     __cs=0xffbff330 "", __len=1)
     at
 /space/bill/incoming/gcc-cvs/gcc-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/locale_facets.tcc:825
 #4  0x58cec in
 _ZNKSt7num_putIcSt19ostreambuf_iteratorIcSt11char_traitsIcEEE14_M_convert_intImEES3_S3_RSt8ios_basecccT_ (this=<incomplete type>, 
     __s={<iterator<std::output_iterator_tag,void,void,void,void>> = {}, 
       _M_sbuf = 0x987, _M_failed = 8}, __io=@0x989e0, __fill=32 ' ', 
     __mod=117 'u', __modl=0 '\000', __v=1140853129)
     at
 /space/bill/incoming/gcc-cvs/gcc-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/locale_facets.tcc:716
 #5  0x58968 in
 _ZNKSt7num_putIcSt19ostreambuf_iteratorIcSt11char_traitsIcEEE6do_putES3_RSt8ios_basecm (this=<incomplete type>, 
     __s={<iterator<std::output_iterator_tag,void,void,void,void>> = {}, 
       _M_sbuf = 0xffbff5, _M_failed = 248}, __io=@0x989e0, __fill=32 '
 ', __v=0)
     at
 /space/bill/incoming/gcc-cvs/gcc-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/locale_facets.tcc:895
 #6  0x60fd8 in _ZNSolsEm (this=<incomplete type>, __n=0)
     at
 /space/bill/incoming/gcc-cvs/gcc-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/locale_facets.h:745
 Cannot access memory at address 0x5cffc02e.
 (gdb) 
 
 cheers,
 /lib
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