Closed
Description
Although dtors should not fail (by convention), it can happen. The Vec
dtor doesn't do anything to defend against one of its elements' failing.
Since there's no winning when dtors fail, it's not obvious that Vec
should try to do anything, but for comparison, the I/O process and stream types both take defensive measures to try to make the best of similar situations.
This program leaks 4 boxes, the buffer, and fails to run 3 dtors:
struct F(Box<()>);
impl Drop for F {
fn drop(&mut self) {
println!("drop");
fail!()
}
}
fn main() {
let _v = vec!(F(box () ()), F(box () ()), F(box () ()), F(box () ()));
}