From 9840f782a01cccb5128380b076cab9f4d7694d50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: greg <greg7mdp@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 08:04:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix issue #99

---
 parallel_hashmap/btree.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/parallel_hashmap/btree.h b/parallel_hashmap/btree.h
index af3a490..97a6c10 100644
--- a/parallel_hashmap/btree.h
+++ b/parallel_hashmap/btree.h
@@ -1609,10 +1609,10 @@ namespace priv {
 
         static node_type *EmptyNode() {
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
-            static EmptyNodeType* empty_node = new EmptyNodeType;
+            static EmptyNodeType empty_node;
             // This assert fails on some other construction methods.
-            assert(empty_node->parent == empty_node);
-            return empty_node;
+            assert(empty_node.parent == &empty_node);
+            return &empty_node;
 #else
             static constexpr EmptyNodeType empty_node(
                 const_cast<EmptyNodeType *>(&empty_node));