Strange debugger behaviour

mvidelgauz

Hello all!

When I am running my program without debugger it works as expected. But when I try to set breakpoints and step over them with debugger (Qt Creator 2.7.2) the following happens. Here is piece of code:
@ QList<QVariant> fieldList(record.fieldList);
if (column < fieldList.size())
{
......
}
return QVariant();
@

When I stop at line 2 I can see that "fieldList" contains 6 items, as expected. "column" is 0. Than I am trying to step over line 2 and getting to line 6
Q1: why if column==0 and fieldList.size() is 6?

Also, debugger tells me that "fieldList" is now <not accessible>
Q2: Was it already destroyed because optimizer decided it is not needed when I am at line 6?

Than I am hitting "Continue (F5)" button. Boom!
The inferior stopped because it received a signal from the Operating System.
Signal name: SIGSEGV
Signal meaning: Segmentation fault.

Call stack shows fault at line 3 of ("qgenericatomiv.h"):
@
T load(const T &_q_value) Q_DECL_NOTHROW
{
return _q_value;
}
@

called from (qbasicatomic.h)
@
T load() const Q_DECL_NOTHROW { return Ops::load(_q_value); }
@

called from line 2 of ("qrefcount.h"):
@
inline bool deref() Q_DECL_NOTHROW {
int count = atomic.load();
if (count == 0) // !isSharable
return false;
if (count == -1) // isStatic
return true;
return atomic.deref();
}
@

called from line 4 of ("qlist.h")
@
template <typename T>
Q_OUTOFLINE_TEMPLATE QList<T>::~QList()
{
if (!d->ref.deref())
dealloc(d);
}
@

called from line 6 of my code.
Ok, I understand abut leaving scope and thus destroying "fieldList". I also know I could use
@
const QList<QVariant>& fieldList = record.fieldList;
@
and actually I had that before but QList documentation says that copy-constructor creates QList that "is implicitly shared. This makes returning a QList from a function very fast. If a shared instance is modified, it will be copied (copy-on-write), and that takes linear time." And I know I am not modifying "fieldList"

I had different variations of this code with different appearances of this problem but actually it is all the same three points:

"fieldList" becomes <not accessible>
0 is not considered valid index in "fieldList"
segmentation fault at the end

Again, without debugger everything is working as expected. No crashes and correct content in QTreeView. But I sometimes need to step over code to watch something...

Any ideas will be appreciated!