Hi, The following minimal program (only 7 lines) causes valgrind to report 2 errors, in line6: Some somebody point me to why it is wrong? a.cpp: 1 #include <boost/filesystem.hpp> 2 3 int main( int, char** ) 4 { 5 boost::filesystem::path path0( "/a/b/c" ); 6 boost::filesystem::path path1 = path0.parent_path(); 7 } Compiling and running with valgrind: g++ -g -lboost_system -lboost_filesystem a.cpp -o a.exe valgrind ./a.exe This gives the following output. Note the errors. ==13303== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==13303== Copyright (C) 2002-2012, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==13303== Using Valgrind-3.8.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==13303== Command: ./a.exe ==13303== ==13303== Invalid read of size 8 ==13303== at 0x5B0A5C8: wcscmp (in /lib64/libc-2.18.so) ==13303== by 0x52CA5C4: std::moneypunct<wchar_t, false>::~moneypunct() (in /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.18) ==13303== by 0x52CA638: std::moneypunct<wchar_t, false>::~moneypunct() (in /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.18) ==13303== by 0x52C1304: std::locale::_Impl::~_Impl() (in /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.18) ==13303== by 0x52C143C: std::locale::~locale() (in /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.18) ==13303== by 0x5AA775E: __cxa_finalize (in /lib64/libc-2.18.so) ==13303== by 0x503DD72: ??? (in /usr/lib64/libboost_filesystem.so.1.53.0) ==13303== by 0x400EE69: _dl_fini (in /lib64/ld-2.18.so) ==13303== by 0x5AA73D8: __run_exit_handlers (in /lib64/libc-2.18.so) ==13303== by 0x5AA7424: exit (in /lib64/libc-2.18.so) ==13303== by 0x5A90BEB: (below main) (in /lib64/libc-2.18.so) ==13303== Address 0x604c038 is 0 bytes after a block of size 8 alloc'd ==13303== at 0x4C284B7: operator new[](unsigned long) (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==13303== by 0x52CBC81: std::moneypunct<wchar_t, false>::_M_initialize_moneypunct(__locale_struct*, char const*) (in /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 .0.18) ==13303== by 0x52C3807: std::locale::_Impl::_Impl(char const*, unsigned long) (in /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.18) ==13303== by 0x52C42D1: std::locale::locale(char const*) (in /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.18) ==13303== by 0x50451B1: boost::filesystem::path::codecvt() (in /usr/lib64/libboost_filesystem.so.1.53.0) ==13303== by 0x5046C7E: boost::filesystem::path::parent_path() const (in /usr/lib64/libboost_filesystem.so.1.53.0) ==13303== by 0x401843: main (a.cpp:6) ==13303== ==13303== Invalid read of size 8 ==13303== at 0x5B0A5C8: wcscmp (in /lib64/libc-2.18.so) ==13303== by 0x52CA4D4: std::moneypunct<wchar_t, true>::~moneypunct() (in /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.18) ==13303== by 0x52CA548: std::moneypunct<wchar_t, true>::~moneypunct() (in /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.18) ==13303== by 0x52C1304: std::locale::_Impl::~_Impl() (in /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.18) ==13303== by 0x52C143C: std::locale::~locale() (in /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.18) ==13303== by 0x5AA775E: __cxa_finalize (in /lib64/libc-2.18.so) ==13303== by 0x503DD72: ??? (in /usr/lib64/libboost_filesystem.so.1.53.0) ==13303== by 0x400EE69: _dl_fini (in /lib64/ld-2.18.so) ==13303== by 0x5AA73D8: __run_exit_handlers (in /lib64/libc-2.18.so) ==13303== by 0x5AA7424: exit (in /lib64/libc-2.18.so) ==13303== by 0x5A90BEB: (below main) (in /lib64/libc-2.18.so) ==13303== Address 0x604c268 is 0 bytes after a block of size 8 alloc'd ==13303== at 0x4C284B7: operator new[](unsigned long) (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==13303== by 0x52CB6B1: std::moneypunct<wchar_t, true>::_M_initialize_moneypunct(__locale_struct*, char const*) (in /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6. 0.18) ==13303== by 0x52C3854: std::locale::_Impl::_Impl(char const*, unsigned long) (in /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.18) ==13303== by 0x52C42D1: std::locale::locale(char const*) (in /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.18) ==13303== by 0x50451B1: boost::filesystem::path::codecvt() (in /usr/lib64/libboost_filesystem.so.1.53.0) ==13303== by 0x5046C7E: boost::filesystem::path::parent_path() const (in /usr/lib64/libboost_filesystem.so.1.53.0) ==13303== by 0x401843: main (a.cpp:6) ==13303== ==13303== ==13303== HEAP SUMMARY: ==13303== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==13303== total heap usage: 483 allocs, 483 frees, 34,115 bytes allocated ==13303== ==13303== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible ==13303== ==13303== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==13303== ERROR SUMMARY: 2 errors from 2 contexts (suppressed: 2 from 2)