Re: Using pointer-to-member of incomplete type in constructor call in VS2008

From:

"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>

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microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Wed, 3 Feb 2010 07:59:44 -0500

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Mihajlo Cvetanovi=C4=87 wrote:

I made a minimal VS2008 project that compiles cleanly in Debug build =

but

reports Run-Time Check Failure #0 during execution. The problem is =

that

Data class is defined in one place and just declared in another. It
seems that sizeof(pointer-to-member) is different in these two cases. =

the order of includes is changed in Test.cpp OR in Configuration.cpp =

there is #include "Data.h" instead of struct Data; in Configuration.h
then there is no stack corruption. Is this a known bug (or a bug at =

all)?

MSVC compiler implements an optimization whereby the size of a =
pointer-to-member depends on the complexity of the class hierarchy (off =
the top of my head, 4 bytes when only single inheritance is present, 8 =
with multiple inheritance, 12 with virtual inheritance and 16 to support =
incomplete classes).

This optimization is, technically, illegal. For one thing, the C++ =
standard says that if you reinterpret_cast a pointer-to-member to =
another unrelated pointer-to-member type and then back, the value should =
remain unchaged, which in practice means that all such types have to be =
the same size. Then there are cases like yours, where the same =
pointer-to-member type is used with incomplete class at one point in the =
program, and with complete class in another.

You can give the compiler a hint as to the complexity of your class, or =
turn off this optimization completely, with a compiler switch, a =
#pragma, or a special keyword. See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yad46a6z.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/83cch5a6.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ck561bfk.aspx

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With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik

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