C/C++ :: Pointers Passed Through Functions
Dec 14, 2014
I am writing a code that creates a deck of cards using a doubly linked list. One function, newDeck(), is made to create a new deck if the user wants. I don't have any problems creating the deck and it all seems to work fine, but when I run the whole program and a separate function needs to utilize the nodes in my deck, I get an error. Trying to find where there was a problem, I tried displaying the values of a card node in random parts of my code. At the end of the newDeck function, after the whole deck has been created, the card still displays correctly, yet when I return back to main immediately after newDeck has been called, I noticed that the values of my cards changed to either random values or they became null. I found this strange because in between the end of my newDeck function and at this point, there is no extra code so it doesn't seem as if there is any way the pointers could have been changed. Maybe It's because I don't have a complete understanding of pointers yet but is there any way that pointers can change values when returning from a function to main?
newDeck(head, tail, n); //this is how I call the function from main.
void newDeck(Card* head, Card* tail, Card* n) //this is my function body
{
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
[Code]....
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Sep 28, 2014
I am going to read some codes about image processing and I need to understand functions like this one below?
BOOL Trans_Geo_Affine(CImage *pImgSrc, CImage *pImgDst, BOOL bMatrix,
BOOL bHvInversed, double fScale_xx, double fFlex_xy, double fSkew_yx,
double fRotate_yy, double fTx, double fTy, int nInterpolation, BOOL bResize, BYTE cFill)
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two parameters, CImage *pImgSrc and CImage *pImgDst. I think they are class pointers and the function is passed by reference. What should I learn to understand this function and its parameters? How should I use this function? how to use the function with two parameters CImage *pImgSrc and CImage *pImgDst.
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Nov 12, 2013
I am trying to create a program that reads my file filled with random words, it then compares the words after they are put into a 2d array and sees if there is any matching words.. unfortunately the count is not working for me (in function2 and function3) and I am not sure why..
Code:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
char function1(char words_array[][17]);
int function2(char words_array[][17]);
void function3(int pairs, char words_array[][17]);
int main( void )
{ char words_array[20][17];
int x = 0;
[Code]...
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Apr 26, 2012
My project is say that it has memory leaks. When I view it in the debugger, it shows the correct values being passed to the pointers.
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
bool ConfigGetEntry( char *pcFile, char *pcNameMust, char* &pcResult ) {
char pcBuffer[ 512 ];
[Code] ....
Its saying that i have memory corrupting at..
Code:
if ( !ConfigGetEntry( pcFile, pcName, pcRet ) ) return _strdup( pcDefault );
Also is it normal to have a bad pointer then point data into it to then clear that of the bad pointer. To have valid data now in that pointer.
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Feb 28, 2014
Which is more efficient in functions? Returning values or using pointers to redefine variables passed as arguments?
I mean either using:
void ptr_Func(int *x)
{
*x = *x+1
}
or
int ptr_Func(int x)
{
return x + 1;
}
In terms of speed, memory use etc.I want to know general efficiency, I know it will obviously vary with different uses and circumstances.
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Dec 4, 2014
I missed last class on doing void functions because I got sick and im completely lost! ive being using the texts book example for a reference but its not running !
The output should look similar to this:
how much was your shirt?
20
shirt 20.00
tax =1.20
the total 21.20
Code:
include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
using namespace std;
void getShirtCost(double shirtCost);
void calculate(double shirtCost,double taxAmount, double total, double taxamount) ;
void printReceipt(double shirtCost, double taxAmount, double total, double taxamount);
[Code] ....
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Sep 13, 2014
I am supposed to update the value temp without using a return statement, or a global variable. I have never ran across a problem like this before and I am totally stuck. I think I'm missing something really simple and need a hint. Here is the code that was provided for "fixing".
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;
[Code]....
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Mar 22, 2013
I am posting this simplified piece of code that is a bit confusing for me. There are two functions that I call. One shows the expected results but the result of the other one rather puzzles me.
//#define defineVecTyp Vec3f
#define defineVecTyp float
template <typename vecTyp>
vecTyp buildLaplacianPyramid(cv::Mat inputmat) {
vecTyp lapPyr;
[Code].....
Calling the function sum1 does not change the values stored in the variables val1 and val2. The output of the program is as follows:
val1= 1 ## val2= 10 // before the call of function sum1
val1= 1 ## val2= 10 // after the call of function sum1
sumOfVals= 22
This is quite obvious and as expected and I just pasted this piece of code as an example for better clarification.
However, if I call the function buildLaplacianPyramid and apply a function for Gaussian Blurring, this also effects the cv::Mat passed to the function. The line imshow("M1, after buildLaplacianPyramid",M1); therefore shows an image that is blurred. Since I am not passing a pointer to the cv::Mat I do not understand why this should be happening. I was assuming that there would be a copy of the cv::Mat M1 to be used within the function. Therefore I was expecting the cv::Mat M1 to retain its original value. I was expecting that all changes applied to cv::Mat inputmat within the function would not have any influence on the cv::Mat M1. Just like in my other example with the sum.
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Feb 28, 2015
I have been struggling with pointers. I am trying to write a program that first asks a user to input a filename. It then checks if the file exists and if it does it passes a pointer to the next function. The next function then asks the user for a specific word to look for and the function will search a text file for the word and do some other operations. My problem is that I do not understand how to use the pointer returned by my first function as an input to another function.
The following code has the first function file_check() and the second function word_search() which I think the way I am declaring it is the problem.
Code:
FILE *file_check();
void word_search(FILE *);
int
main(void) {
FILE* check= file_check();
// word_search(check);
[Code] ......
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Aug 23, 2013
I'm having some problems with a function. The function is supposed to find the two largest values in an array.
Code:
void find_two_largest( const int *a, int n, int *largest, int *second_largest){
largest = a;
int temp;
second_largest = a;
for ( int i = 1; i < n; i++){
if (*(a + i) > *largest){
temp = *largest;
[Code]....
I don't see any mistake with the code of the function, but when I try to call it inside my program it only returns 0 for both largest and second_largest.
Code:
int *find_middle( int *a, int n);
void find_two_largest(const int *a, int n, int *largest, int *second_largest);
int main()
{
int n;
[Code]...
Do I have to declare the variables largest and second_largest as normal integer variables and then pass their addresses as arguments to find_largest or is that incorrect?
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Oct 15, 2014
For some reason I keep getting null pointers in most of my functions, and in my convertTime function the numbers are way higher than they should be.
Code:
//Utils.H header file----------------------------------------------
//This function takes the radius of a circle and returns the diameter, the circumference and the area.
int circleStatistics(double radius, double *diameter, double *circumference, double *area);
//This function takes a number of days and returns how many years, weeks and remaining days that is.
int convertTime(int days, int *y, int *w, int *d);
//This function takes a length of time and calculates the dilation of that time at a percentage of the speed of light.
int lorentzTimeDilation(double normalTime, double percentC, double *dilatedTime);
[Code] ....
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Feb 23, 2013
I have a struct and I want to implement in with pointers and functions.
What is the corect syntax? For example:
Code:
typedef struct XYZ
{
int x;
int y;
int z;
}XYZ_t;
int func( using the XYZ_t struct)
[Code] .....
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Jan 17, 2014
the book I learn from gave a task to write a program which gets a matrix , and we have to write a function that switches 2 columns or rows the user inputs .as far as I know a function can not change variables in the main function without using pointers .so , theoretically, can a function described here can be written without using pointers ? as far as I tried - it can not.
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Mar 27, 2013
I have a vector of pointers inside a seperate Exam class.
vector <Question* > question_list
The Question class is my base class in which I have derived sub classes for the different types of questions (MultipleChoice, LongAnswer, etc.). I am using my vector to hold the different types of questions.
in each of those classes I have virtual "write" functions in both the base and the derived classes, that write to a file differing for each type of question.
My problem now is calling the write function from a Exam function. I've tried several methods, such as:
for (size_t i = 0; i < question_list.size(); i++) {
question_list[i].write(testfile.c_str());
}
but it comes with two errors: "error C2228:left of '.write' must have class/struct/union" along with "IntelliSense: expression must have class type"
I have made a write function for the exam class as well but am not sure what it should include since the Exam class is not a derived class of the Question class.
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Mar 3, 2013
I am having problems with passing my values through functions.
Here is my code:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>
void test(int**);
void test2(int**);
[Code]....
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May 13, 2013
I'm trying to create an array of function pointers and then assign compartilbe functions to them, so I can just call *pf[0](xxx);
The functions are all of the type
void func01(unsigned char*, int, int)
how would I create an array of function pointers and assign the address of the functions to them? So I could call them like
ptrToFunction[i](charBuffer, 10, 20);
I've read a bit on line and I thought I could do it but so far I've failed.
It seems trivial and I feel I'm close but close isn't good enough.
I'd like to assign the fuction addresses like this:
for (int i=0; i<10; i++)
if (i==1)
ptrToFunction[i]=func01;
if (i==2)
ptrToFunction[i]=func02;
etc.
The actual logic is somewhat different than this but this close.
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Feb 28, 2014
I'm trying to create an array of pointers to pointers which will point to array of pointers (to strings) I tried
Code:
int i;
char *string[]={
"my name is dave",
"we like to dance together",
"sunny day",
"hello",
[code]...
the app keeps crashing , I don't know how to make the array-elements to point to another array-elements..
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May 21, 2013
I am a little confused while comparing char pointers to integer pointers. Here is the problem:
Consider the following statement;
char *ptr = "Hello";
char cArr[] = "Hello";
When I do cout << ptr; it prints Hello, same is the case with the statement
cout << cArr;
As ptr and cArr are pointers, they should print addresses rather than contents, but if I have an interger array i.e.
int iArr[] = {1, 2, 3};
If I cout << iArr; it displays the expected result(i.e. prints address) but pointers to character array while outputting doesn't show the address but shows the contents, Why??
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Mar 20, 2014
I'm a little confused by my programming assignment this week. I've been working at it Wednesday and I've made progress but I'm still confused as to how I'm supposed to do this. The class I made is called Stack, and it's derived from a template class called StackADT. We also utilize a class called unorderedLinkedList, which is derived from a class called linkedList.
We're supposed to implement all of the virtual functions from stackADT in the Stack class. The Stack data is stored in a an unorderedLinkedList, so what I'm confused by is how to implement a few of the Stack functions because there are no functions in unorderedLinkedList which we could call to manipulate the data.
As you can see from my attached code, I'm really confused by how I'm supposed to implement the pop() and top() functions, and I also think my initializeList() function is wrong. We don't have any similar functions in unorderedLinkedList to call, so I'm at a loss of how i'd access my unorderedLinkedList. My initial thought was to call the similar functions in the class that unorderedLinkedList was derived from, linkedList, but I'm unsure of this is what we're supposed to do, or if theres actually a way to access my unorderedLinkedList without having to use the functions from the base class.
NOTE: We're not allowed to modify stackADT, unorderedLinkedList, and linkedList.
Stack.h
#include "stackADT.h"
#include "unorderedLinkedList.h"
template<class Type>
class Stack: public stackADT<Type>{
template <class T>
struct nodeType
{
T info;
nodeType<T> *link;
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Feb 4, 2014
Draw the total of a passed value, or value in general, without checking how many values there are individually.
Here's a pseudo-example:
int aliens = 10; // This should be changed as desired.
void drawaliens(int value) {
aliens.draw(value); // Instead of having a test of how many to draw, draw the amount there is from one check
}
I want to draw the amount of aliens passed or called to the alien draw function.
However, I don't want the function to check every possible value of aliens which could be passed before drawing, and just check the value once and draw that value.
IF x ALIENS, DRAW x ALIENS instead of...
IF 1 ALIEN, DRAW ALIEN(1);
IF 2 ALIEN, DRAW ALIEN(2);
IF 3 ALIEN, DRAW ALIEN(3);
.... and so on.
If there can be hundreds of aliens, it seems impractical to check every single possible value before drawing, and just check the value and draw that value.
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Apr 12, 2014
So here I have a program that is supposed to basically sort out who passed and failed. I am currently stuck on the switch statement, I'm trying to count how many students received an A, B, C, etc.
Here's what I have so far:
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <iomanip>
using namespace std;
void printIdInfo(ofstream &fout);
void printColumnHeaders(ofstream &fout);
[Code] ....
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Aug 25, 2013
I have a function :
void UpdateNotefications(vector <string> &Notefic)
Where I change a vector...
I called it with a thread :
thread t1 (UpdateNotefications, Notefic);
t1.detach();
Though I see that inside the func, Notefic has a val, and outside, it is still empty (after the function is over)...
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Feb 9, 2015
I have this code:
tgaManager.fileWriter.put((unsigned char)min(blue*255.0f,255.0f)).put((unsigned char)min(green*255.0f, 255.0f)).put((unsigned char)min(red*255.0f, 255.0f));
that should pass the value decided by the min function to an ofstream object, filewriter, that call the put method to print chars in a tga image file. When I open the file, all I see it is a huge black screen. You may be thinking that the values of blue,green and red are all zero but it is not the case.
With this code:
if (x==50 && y==50) {
cout << "Min BGR: " << endl;
cout << min (blue*255.0f,255.0f) << ' ' << min (green*255.0f,255.0f) << ' ' << min (red*255.0f,255.0f) << ' ' << x << ' ' << y << endl;
I get: Min BGR: 9.54167 29.9188 47.8701 50 50
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Apr 8, 2015
I have a list of Strings that are passed to a method consecutively by reference from a class. I want to get the string value passed to the method at a point in time. The reason is to perform an if statement.
//this is the class that holds that holds the constants.
using System;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
namespace xxx.Functional.xyz.Login {
public class Constants {
public static String Username = "paul";
public static String Code = "4";
[code].....
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May 21, 2014
Is it correct for me to make a clone of testobj in function AddTest below, before i add it to my map? What i want is an user pass testobj to me though AddTest, and after i add it into my map, i do not want to have anything to do with the original testobj anymore. I.e, they are two copies, one belong to Device, one belong to the caller, both has no link to each other.
Also regarding the GetTest method, i prefer to return a raw pointer, as i do not want to force the caller to use smart pointer. And i also do not want the caller to be able to do anything that may change testobj in the map. So i am not sure to return as const reference or make a clone of testobj on the map and return it to the user (but caller need to delete the testobj when it is not used).
Code:
class Device {
public:
void AddTest(const Test* const testobj) {
_pTest.insert("ss", QSharedPointer<Test>(test->clone()));
} const Test* const GetTest(QString str) {
return _pTest[str].data();
[code].....
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Jun 18, 2013
Here is the code,
Code:
vector<int> vec;
for(int i=0;i<10;++i)
vec.push_back(i);
random_shuffle(vec.begin(), vec.end());
nth_element(vec.begin(), vec.begin()+7, vec.end());
No matter how I choose the second argument passed to nth_element, the elements in vec are always sorted as,
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
What is the use of second argument here?
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