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From: tiemann@arkesden.eng.sun.com (Michael Tiemann)
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Subject: virtual function bug...
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Date: 5 Feb 90 04:18:42 GMT
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   Date: Sat, 3 Feb 90 17:42:41 -0500
   From: andersnb@cs.nyu.edu (Brian G. Anderson)

   I just got bitten by a bug in virtual functions with virtual base classes.
   The code follow along with the segmentation error reported when run under
   gdb.  The code should print out:
	   four
	   two
	   hello]one
	   two
   but as one can see when examining the run output it gets to "hello]one"
   before jumping to a non-existent location.  The program seems correct to
   me.  I'm dead in the water until I can figure out how to correct this.
   Am I doing something wrong?  If I am why, isn't the compiler telling me?
   If I am not, is there a patch to fix this problem?  Help!

   -Brian G. Anderson		New York University
   andersnb@cs.nyu.edu

   --------the code----------
   #include <stream.h>

   class bottom {
   public:
     char* hold;
     bottom(char* txt) { hold = txt; }
     virtual void one() const = 0;
   };

   class leftone: public virtual bottom {
   public:
     virtual void two() const = 0;
     void one() const { cout << hold << "] one\n"; two(); }
   };

   class lefttwo: public leftone {
   public:
     void two() const { cout << "two\n"; }
   };

   class right: public virtual bottom {
   public:
     void three() const { cout << "three\n"; one(); }
   };

   class top: public right, public lefttwo {
   public:
     top(char* txt): bottom(txt) {};
     void four() const { cout << "four\n"; two(); one(); }
   };

   main() {
     top x("hello");
     x.four();
   }

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Here's a patch to try:

    arkesden% diff -c2 cplus-search.c~ cplus-search.c
    *** cplus-search.c~	Fri Jan 26 06:31:53 1990
    --- cplus-search.c	Sun Feb  4 19:53:04 1990
    ***************
    *** 2677,2680 ****
    --- 2677,2687 ----
			  }
		      ok:
    + 		    if (CLASSTYPE_OFFSET (this_context) != integer_zero_node)
    + 		      {
    + 			tree offset_entry = CONSTRUCTOR_ELTS (MI_VMATRIX (row, col)[2]);
    + 			TREE_VALUE (offset_entry)
    + 			  = genop (PLUS_EXPR, TREE_VALUE (offset_entry),
    + 				   CLASSTYPE_OFFSET (this_context));
    + 		      }
			MI_VMATRIX (row, col)[0] = 0;

    arkesden% 

Michael