Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
1 [See also http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2001-11/msg00133.html ]
3 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:06:22 -0500
4 From: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
5 To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
6 Subject: [libstdc++ trunk & 3.0] Fix deque memory leak
7 Message-ID: <20011116160622.A23094@disaster.jaj.com>
10 As discussed on the libstdc++ mailing list. Tested on i686/linux.
14 2001-11-16 Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@unitus.it>
16 * include/bits/stl_deque.h (deque::erase()): Fix memory leak.
19 [rediffed against 2.95.3 -- dank]
21 --- gcc-2.95.3/libstdc++/stl/stl_deque.h.old 2001-01-01 09:48:22.000000000 -0800
22 +++ gcc-2.95.3/libstdc++/stl/stl_deque.h 2006-02-18 15:24:17.000000000 -0800
24 copy_backward(_M_start, __first, __last);
25 iterator __new_start = _M_start + __n;
26 destroy(_M_start, __new_start);
27 - _M_destroy_nodes(__new_start._M_node, _M_start._M_node);
28 + _M_destroy_nodes(_M_start._M_node, __new_start._M_node); /* fixed per http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2001-11/msg00139.html */
29 _M_start = __new_start;