Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #3549: Crash from serializing an unregistered class

Robert Ramey — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:24:47 GMT

Hmmm - where exactly does this crash?

archive_exception.cpp line # 40 constructs this exception and it explicitly checks for a null pointer.

Need more information here.

Robert Ramey

jeff.jackowski@… — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:32:01 GMT

Replying to ramey:

Hmmm - where exactly does this crash?

archive_exception.cpp line # 40 constructs this exception and it explicitly checks for a null pointer.

Need more information here.

Robert Ramey

It crashes before it can construct the exception. The code I'm looking at (boost/archive/detail/oserializer.hpp, line 376) is:

if(NULL == true_type){

boost::serialization::throw_exception(

archive_exception(

archive_exception::unregistered_class, true_type->get_debug_info()

)

);

}

Evaluating the second parameter to archive_exception will dereference a null pointer.

Robert Ramey — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:55:04 GMT

fixed on my machine - will migrate to trunk and beyond.

Note: I suspect that this will only occur when RTTI is not enabled for one's machine.

Robert Ramey

jeff.jackowski@… — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:10:21 GMT

The problem occurred for me with MSVS 2008 with RTTI enabled.

status changed; resolution set

Robert Ramey — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:01:11 GMT

status new → closed
resolution → fixed

In case I did make a change so I I don't see how this can happen. It's the best I can do without a failing test case.

Robert Ramey