Is this the wrong way to use std::list?

From:
TBass <tbj@automateddesign.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:26:39 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<f4b94cc5-b061-424f-bba0-2d366f56575f@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
So I have a class:

class Client
{
   unsigned int ClientID;
   ....
};

class MyListenSocket
{
    ...
    AddClient( Client *pClient);
    RemoveClient( unsigned int ID );
    std::list<Client> m_listClients;
};

To add clients to the list, AddClient is called:

MyListenSocket::AddClient( Client *pClient )
{
     m_listClients.push_back( *pClient );
}

But a client can be erased from anywhere on the list. I wrote this
function:

MyListenSocket::RemoveClient( unsigned int ID )
{
        std::list<Client>::iterator it;
        for( it = m_listClients.begin();
            it != m_listClients.end();
            ++it )
        {
            if ( it->ClientID() == ID )
            {
                m_listClients.erase( it );
                break;
            }
        }
}

The problem is that this seems to corrupt the heap in my program. I
know that the iterator is corrupted when I use the erase command, but
why would that corrupt the heap?

Is this not the way to delete an item from the middle of a list?
Should I not be using ::list for this type of purpose?

Thanks in advance,
Tom Junior

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