Is this a programming error, or a compiler error..

[Dimitry Andric]

On 13 Mar 2019, at 12:57, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw at digiware.nl> wrote:
> 
> I'm getting a crash in a Ceph test program in the following pice of code:
> 
> struct entity_addrvec_t {
>   vector<entity_addr_t> v;
> .....
>   entity_addr_t legacy_addr() const {
>     for (auto& a : v) {
>       if (a.type == entity_addr_t::TYPE_LEGACY) {
>         return a;
>       }
>     }
>     return entity_addr_t();
>   }
> ......
> 
> Where the loop is taken, even if v.size() == 0
> So v content is pointing to random memory and itterating over the next pointer results in a crash.

This can happen when the vector is invalidated, due to either it, or its
parent object having been moved from.  Maybe run this under valgrind or
AddressSanitizer, that should give some more clues.

-Dimitry

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