[Interest] Debugging a double dealloc

Ben Haller bhaller at mac.com
Wed Sep 23 13:50:20 CEST 2020


Hi all.  I’m trying to figure out what appears to be a double dealloc problem of some sort.  I’m sure the actual bug is in my code (I’m trying to get a window with complex subsidiary windows, etc., to disassemble and free the things it owns, without freeing itself), but the backtrace at the point that the crash happens doesn’t have any of my code in it at all.  I’ve appended the full backtrace below my signature, in case it is informative; maybe somebody has seen this pattern before and knows what I’m likely to be doing wrong.  My code does not use QFontCache or QScopedPointer at all, so it’s hard to guess where my bug might be.

My question, though, is bigger: how would folks here recommend debugging a double dealloc in a Qt-based app, running under Qt Creator?  I’m coming from the Cocoa/Xcode world, and in that world there’s a very nice tool called NSZombie: you set a flag, and then whenever an object would be deallocated, it instead turns into an NSZombie object that produces nice console logs if anybody ever tries to use that memory as an object again.  But that’s for NSObject.  Is there something similar in the Qt world, such that I could get a console log or a break in the debugger at the point where a C++/Qt object that has been dealloced gets touched again?  Or if not, how would you recommend approaching this?  Thanks for any help.

Cheers,
-B.

Benjamin C. Haller
Messer Lab
Cornell University


1  QScopedPointer<QObjectData, QScopedPointerDeleter<QObjectData>>::operator->() const                                                                                                                                                                                                       qscopedpointer.h                       118  0x10201b594    
2  decltype(fp.operator->()) qGetPtrHelper<QScopedPointer<QObjectData, QScopedPointerDeleter<QObjectData>> const>(QScopedPointer<QObjectData, QScopedPointerDeleter<QObjectData>> const&)                                                                                                    qglobal.h                              1133 0x10201b594    
3  QObject::d_func() const                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   qobject.h                              132  0x10201b594    
4  QObject::thread() const                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   qobject.cpp                            1512 0x10201b594    
5  QOpenGLVertexArrayObjectPrivate::destroy()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                qopenglvertexarrayobject.cpp           212  0x101b21481    
6  QOpenGLVertexArrayObject::destroy()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       qopenglvertexarrayobject.cpp           424  0x101b217cc    
7  QOpenGLVertexArrayObject::~QOpenGLVertexArrayObject()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     qopenglvertexarrayobject.cpp           392  0x101b217c3    
8  QOpenGLVertexArrayObject::~QOpenGLVertexArrayObject()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     qopenglvertexarrayobject.cpp           391  0x101b217b9    
9  QOpenGLTextureGlyphCache::~QOpenGLTextureGlyphCache()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     qopengltextureglyphcache.cpp           93   0x101b1cacd    
10 QOpenGLTextureGlyphCache::~QOpenGLTextureGlyphCache()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     qopengltextureglyphcache.cpp           88   0x101b1cbce    
11 QOpenGLTextureGlyphCache::~QOpenGLTextureGlyphCache()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     qopengltextureglyphcache.cpp           88   0x101b1cbc9    
12 QExplicitlySharedDataPointer<QFontEngineGlyphCache>::~QExplicitlySharedDataPointer()                                                                                                                                                                                                      qshareddata.h                          184  0x101883c92    
13 QExplicitlySharedDataPointer<QFontEngineGlyphCache>::~QExplicitlySharedDataPointer()                                                                                                                                                                                                      qshareddata.h                          184  0x101883c74    
14 QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry::~GlyphCacheEntry()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          qfontengine.cpp                        1570 0x101883c74    
15 QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry::~GlyphCacheEntry()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          qfontengine.cpp                        1569 0x101883c74    
16 void std::allocator_traits<std::allocator<std::__list_node<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry, void *>>>::__destroy<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry>(std::integral_constant<bool, false>, std::allocator<std::__list_node<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry, void *>>&, QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry *) memory                                 1732 0x101883c74    
17 void std::allocator_traits<std::allocator<std::__list_node<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry, void *>>>::destroy<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry>(std::allocator<std::__list_node<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry, void *>>&, QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry *)                                        memory                                 1595 0x101883c74    
18 std::__list_imp<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry, std::allocator<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry>>::clear()                                                                                                                                                                                      list                                   733  0x101883c74    
19 std::__list_imp<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry, std::allocator<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry>>::~__list_imp()                                                                                                                                                                                list                                   712  0x101883c24    
20 std::list<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry>::~list()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          list                                   805  0x101883c24    
21 std::list<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry>::~list()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          list                                   805  0x101883c24    
22 QHashNode<void const *, std::list<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry>>::~QHashNode()                                                                                                                                                                                                            qhash.h                                147  0x101883c24    
23 QHashNode<void const *, std::list<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry>>::~QHashNode()                                                                                                                                                                                                            qhash.h                                147  0x101883c24    
24 QHash<void const *, std::list<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry>>::deleteNode2(QHashData::Node *)                                                                                                                                                                                              qhash.h                                563  0x101883c24    
25 QHashData::free_helper(void ( *)(QHashData::Node *))                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      qhash.cpp                              572  0x101e5db39    
26 QHash<void const *, std::list<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry>>::freeData(QHashData *)                                                                                                                                                                                                       qhash.h                                603  0x10187a47b    
27 QHash<void const *, std::list<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry>>::~QHash()                                                                                                                                                                                                                    qhash.h                                250  0x10187a46f    
28 QHash<void const *, std::list<QFontEngine::GlyphCacheEntry>>::~QHash()                                                                                                                                                                                                                    qhash.h                                250  0x10187a44f    
29 QFontEngine::~QFontEngine()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               qfontengine.cpp                        277  0x10187a44f    
30 QCoreTextFontEngine::~QCoreTextFontEngine()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               qfontengine_coretext.mm                215  0x105b7cf8e    
31 QCoreTextFontEngine::~QCoreTextFontEngine()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               qfontengine_coretext.mm                215  0x105b7cf89    
32 QFontEngineMulti::~QFontEngineMulti()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     qfontengine.cpp                        1782 0x101880039    
33 QFontEngineMulti::~QFontEngineMulti()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     qfontengine.cpp                        1778 0x10188012e    
34 QFontEngineMulti::~QFontEngineMulti()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     qfontengine.cpp                        1778 0x101880129    
35 QFontCache::clear()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       qfont.cpp                              2861 0x1018762eb    
36 QFontCache::~QFontCache()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 qfont.cpp                              2817 0x10187603c    
37 QFontCache::~QFontCache()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 qfont.cpp                              2816 0x1018763ee    
38 QFontCache::~QFontCache()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 qfont.cpp                              2816 0x1018763e9    
39 QThreadStorageData::set(void *)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           qthreadstorage.cpp                     162  0x101e25777    
40 QGuiApplicationPrivate::~QGuiApplicationPrivate()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         qguiapplication.cpp                    1694 0x1017ca490    
41 QApplicationPrivate::~QApplicationPrivate()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               qapplication.cpp                       184  0x10116f81e    
42 QApplicationPrivate::~QApplicationPrivate()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               qapplication.cpp                       184  0x10116f819    
43 QScopedPointerDeleter<QObjectData>::cleanup(QObjectData *)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                qscopedpointer.h                       60   0x10201c06c    
44 QScopedPointer<QObjectData, QScopedPointerDeleter<QObjectData>>::~QScopedPointer()                                                                                                                                                                                                        qscopedpointer.h                       107  0x10201c061    
45 QScopedPointer<QObjectData, QScopedPointerDeleter<QObjectData>>::~QScopedPointer()                                                                                                                                                                                                        qscopedpointer.h                       105  0x10201c05d    
46 QObject::~QObject()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       qobject.cpp                            1119 0x10201c05d    
47 QApplication::~QApplication()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             qapplication.cpp                       837  0x101171b3d    
48 main                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      main.cpp                               246  0x100012256    
49 start                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     (x86_64) /usr/lib/system/libdyld.dylib      0x7fff6b461cc9 



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