On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Michael Wieher
<michael.wieher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok, so I've been struggling with a strange issue and a broken destructor.
>
> btw, anyone know a single-word for the idea "situations so complex
> they cannot be reproduced"
>
> Here is situation:
> ---------------------------
> class {
> datax ** y;
> data * b;
> int numbofY;
> }
>
> destructor:
> free all in y (via for-loop & numbofY)
>
> causes seg-fault unless i syslog something in there
>
> however
>
> destructor:
> free all in y(same)
> freee b
>
> works OK
>
> any idea why syslog makes this failure to free(b) acceptable during
> execution/exit of program?
Sounds to me like you have an error in your code. What does the
destructor actually look like? How is the class actually used?
-Tom
