I am reproducing here a bug report I filed to gcc's bugzilla against gcc-7.1.0: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81522 , in hopes of finding others who observed the same issue or who may have a solution. The bug only appears on Cygwin and only in c++17 mode with the old ABI.
-- Irfan This trivial program: #include <sstream> int main() { std::stringstream os; // same with ("") or (std::string()) os.str(); return 0; } causes an invalid memory access with gcc 7.1.0 (compiled from source), but only on Cygwin in c++17 mode with old ABI, and only if the stringstream is constructed empty. Changing any of those parameters no longer causes the issue. Thread 1 "string" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x00000001004018a0 in __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<char>::deallocate (this=0x6, __p=0x3e8000003fc <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x3e8000003fc>) at /usr/local/gcc-7.1.0/include/c++/7.1.0/ext/new_allocator.h:125 125 ::operator delete(__p); (gdb) bt #0 0x00000001004018a0 in __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<char>::deallocate (this=0x6, __p=0x3e8000003fc <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x3e8000003fc>) at /usr/local/gcc-7.1.0/include/c++/7.1.0/ext/new_allocator.h:125 #1 0x00000001800b25d2 in CreateEventW () from /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll #2 0x0000000000000130 in ?? () $ g++ -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=g++ COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/local/gcc-7.1.0/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/7.1.0/lto-wrapper.exe Target: x86_64-pc-cygwin Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-7.1.0 --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++ --build=x86_64-pc-cygwin --disable-multilib --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=gcc4-compatible Thread model: posix gcc version 7.1.0 (GCC) Sample program compiled with: $ g++ -std=c++17 -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 -ggdb -O0 string.cc -o string -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple