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          <th>Bug ID</th>
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   title="NEW - StringView should not delete the StringImpl it is viewing."
   href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162695">162695</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>StringView should not delete the StringImpl it is viewing.
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>WebKit
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>WebKit Local Build
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>Unspecified
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Unspecified
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>Normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P2
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Web Template Framework
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>webkit-unassigned&#64;lists.webkit.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>mark.lam&#64;apple.com
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        <pre>Currently, StringView uses a UnderlyingString that starts with a refCount of 1 independent of how many references to the underlying StringImpl exists.  In the StringView destructor, it then decrements its UnderlyingString refCount, and if that refCount is now 0, it proceeds to delete the referenced StringImpl even if the StringImpl's refCount is non-zero.  As a result, this prematurely frees the StringImpl that other code is still expecting to be alive.</pre>
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