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Possible bug IVbeta3 Tables (include/OS/table.h)

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From: Bill Poitras
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:56
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After running purify (a program for helping detect memory leaks) over an
interviews program, it indicated that some already freed memory was being
read during a table iterator next call.  The code which causes this
problem looks as follows:

  for(TableIterator(TableMethodsImpl) i(*_table); i.more(); i.next())
    _table->remove(i.cur_key());

The memory is freed in Table(TableMethodsImpl)::remove and then
accessed very soon afterwards.  It occurs before anything else is freed.
It is accessed in TableIterator(TableMethodsImpl)::next.  The obvious
problem is deleting memory while using an iterator.  As I am not very
good at debugging problems like this,  I would appreciate some way to
solve this problem.  One way would be a properly written Table::clear
routine, rather than implmenting it myself.


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Subject: Possible bug IVbeta3 Tables (include/OS/table.h)
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