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Scott Cantor commented on XERCESC-2088:
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I really could not accept a constraint of "no RTTI" when it comes to fixing
other bugs, that would put me in a fairly untenable position trying to maintain
what little of the code base I can actually effectively maintain as it is.
> Bad casting from DOMTextImpl to DOMElementImpl
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Key: XERCESC-2088
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-2088
> Project: Xerces-C++
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: DOM
> Affects Versions: 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4
> Environment: ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @
> 3.40GHz, 16GB
> Reporter: Yuseok Jeon
> Assignee: Scott Cantor
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 3.2.0
>
> Attachments: Actual_result.txt, DOMNodeBase.hpp, casting.patch,
> relationship_tree.jpeg
>
>
> Hi all,
> Our recently developed type confusion detection tool reports a type_confusion
> error in the "xercesc/dom/imple/DOMCasts.hpp"
> xercesc/dom/imple/DOMCasts.hpp, line 146
> static inline DOMNodeImpl *castToNodeImpl(const DOMNode *p)
> {
> DOMElementImpl *pE = (DOMElementImpl *)p;
> return &(pE->fNode);
> }
> p is pointing to the object allocated as DOMTextImpl, and it is casted into
> DOMElementImpl. However, since DOMElementImpl is not a subobject of
> DOMTextImpl, it is violating C++ standard rules 5.2.9/11 (down casting is
> undefined if the object that the pointer to be casted points to is not a
> suboject of down casting type) and causes undefined behaviors.
> There are similar type-confusion cases as below links.
> - (libstdc++) https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60734
> - (Firefox) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1074280
> I attached a actual type confusion report and object relationship
> information.
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