[jira] [Created] (MESOS-3741) stout containers inherit from STL containers

["Benjamin Bannier (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Benjamin Bannier created MESOS-3741:
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             Summary: stout containers inherit from STL containers
                 Key: MESOS-3741
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-3741
             Project: Mesos
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: stout
            Reporter: Benjamin Bannier


stout exposes a number of containers ({{hashmap}}, {{hashset}}, {{list}}, {{multihashmap}}, and {{set}}) which {{publicly}} inherit from their STL counterparts since MESOS-3217. This code being in stout means these custom containers live in the global namespace.

Classes inherited publicly from STL containers are not generally safe to use as the STL containers lack {{virtual}} destructors, so that deleting through a ptr-to-base will not invoke the base dtr and leak memory. It appears this is being made worse by e.g. putting the stout containers (which are often named like their STL counterparts) in the global namespace which makes it easy to confuse the actual type being used (at least in messy user code containing {{using namespace std;}} which is not allowed for good reasons like this in mesos code).

It would seem better to (1) decide what minimal set of containers still needs to be provided now that C++11 can be used, (2) fix the inheritance for the stout containers (e.g. inherit {{privately}}), or at least (3) use a dedicated namespace for these custom containers. 



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