Bug#115978: marked as done (stringstream adds extra characters at the end (forwarded from libstdc++2.10-dev))
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Subject: stringstream adds extra characters at the end (forwarded from libstdc++2.10-dev)
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Package: libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
Version: 2.95.4-0.011006
Severity: critical
One of my users reported the following as Bug #109073. Unfortunately, he
reported it to libstdc++-dev, not realizing this is a code and not a
header issue. This is most likely an upstream problem. It is also
CRITICAL as it is preventing us from updating development systems (we're
stuck at 2.95.4-010424). While the original report was against
2.95.4-010810 we've been experiencing with this with every version newer
than 2.95.4-010424.
The original message follows this line:
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When I upgraded from 2.95.4-0.010424, I found that code which used
stringstreams (or istringstreams or ostringstreams) broke. In
particular, I find that extra characters are added to the end of the
stream which complicate reading and writing. For example, I wrote the
following program:
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#include <sstream>
#include <iostream>
void
writer(int i)
{
static stringstream sstr;
// shove some stuff into the stringstream
sstr << "This is a fubar test. " << i;
sstr.unsetf(ios::skipws); // keep spaces
char c = 'Q'; // A throwaway that appears nowhere in the message
while (sstr >> c)
{
// print out each character and its hex representation. It
// should stop printing out when the end of the string is
// reached.
cout << c << "[" << hex << static_cast<int>(c) << "] ";
c = 'Q';
}
cout << "\n----------------" << endl ;
// reset the stringstream after it has gone out of good state
sstr.clear();
}
int
main()
{
for (int i = 0; i != 2; ++i)
{
writer(i);
}
return 0;
}
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which returns the following under 2.95.4-0.010810:
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T:54 h:68 i:69 s:73 :20 i:69 s:73 :20 a:61 :20 f:66 u:75 b:62 a:61 r:72 :20 t:74 e:65 s:73 t:74 .:2e :20 0:30 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0
----------------
a:61 :20 f:66 u:75 b:62 a:61 r:72 :20 t:74 e:65 s:73 t:74 .:2e :20 1:31 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0
----------------
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while 2.95.4-0.010424 gives the correct (I think):
------------------------------------------------------------------------
T:54 h:68 i:69 s:73 :20 i:69 s:73 :20 a:61 :20 f:66 u:75 b:62 a:61 r:72 :20 t:74 e:65 s:73 t:74 .:2e :20 0:30
----------------
T:54 h:68 i:69 s:73 :20 i:69 s:73 :20 a:61 :20 f:66 u:75 b:62 a:61 r:72 :20 t:74 e:65 s:73 t:74 .:2e :20 1:31
----------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note the trailing null characters in the 2.95.4-0.010810 version, and
notice also that the number of trailing nulls in the first half of the
output (8) exactly corresponds to the number of characters missing
from the string in the second half ("This is ").
Note that other tests we have done involving streaming in and out
numerical types have resulted in non-null characters being added at
the end. It is not only nulls which can be added, although only nulls
seem to be added in this particular case.
I am submitting this to Debian rather than to gcc since it is not
obvious to me whether this is a problem with the packaging or the
source. If the latter, would you please forward this report to the
gcc folks?
Thanks.
Dan Katz
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Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 23:55:10 +0100
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Subject: fixed in libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2-2.95.4-0.011223
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gcc-2.95 (2.95.4.ds7-0.011223) unstable; urgency=medium
* Undo debian/patches/libstdc++-sstream.dpatch. Closes #109073, #115978.
Reopens #92524, #100571. The patch breaks debian/bugs/bug-115978.cc.
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