http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52604
--- Comment #9 from Laurent Aflonsi <laurent.alfonsi at st dot com> 2012-04-12 15:05:25 UTC --- Paolo, I ve discovered that the encoding of M_key is encoded differently for each thread-implementation. On pthread implementation M_key is an integer, whereas on others it is pointers. So, in pthread 0 is a legal thread key: So zeroing M_key and testing if(M_key) is simply wrong. The M_thread_freelist zeroing seems legal and is enough to avoid the above valgrind error. I am now testing with this fix only: ============================ --- libstdc++-v3/src/mt_allocator.cc +++ libstdc++-v3/src/mt_allocator.cc @@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ if (_M_thread_freelist_array) { __gthread_key_delete(_M_key); ::operator delete(static_cast<void*>(_M_thread_freelist_array)); + _M_thread_freelist = NULL; } } }; ============================ It seems to be on each thread-implementation to handle deleted keys and it is well handled on pthread. Laurent.