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          <th>Bug ID</th>
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   title="NEW --- - basic_string leaks memory when move-constructed with unequal allocator"
   href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20335">20335</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>basic_string leaks memory when move-constructed with unequal allocator
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>libc++
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>All
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          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <td>All Bugs
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>tkoeppe@google.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvmbugs@cs.uiuc.edu, mclow.lists@gmail.com
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          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>Created <span class=""><a href="attachment.cgi?id=12780" name="attach_12780" title="Demonstrates memory leak in std::basic_string">attachment 12780</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=12780&action=edit" title="Demonstrates memory leak in std::basic_string">[details]</a></span>
Demonstrates memory leak in std::basic_string

I believe there's a memory leak in the current (213208) libc++ implementation
of basic_string when a string is move-constructed from another string but with
an unequal allocator. Briefly, here's how to produce it:

   using astring = std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
                                     StatefulAllocator<T>>;

   int main()
   {
       StatefulAllocator<void> a(STATE1), b(STATE2);  // assume a != b

       astring s("looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong", a); // no SSO

       astring t(std::move(s), b);   // leak: data of s is not released
   }

I'm attaching an example (run it through valgrind to see the leak).

I believe that the problem lies in "string:2139":

    if (__a == __str.__alloc() || !__str.__is_long())
        __r_.first().__r = __str.__r_.first().__r;
    else
        __init(_VSTD::__to_raw_pointer(__str.__get_long_pointer()),
__str.__get_long_size()); 
    __str.__zero();

If the allocators are not equal, i.e. the first branch isn't taken; then it
seems that __init() will copy the string data with the new allocator, but never
release the old memory. The pointer to the old memory is wiped immediately by
__str.__zero();.</pre>
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