In jumping into C++ it says something like this: It's not necessary but when you delete a pointer it's a good idea to reset it as a null pointer. That if your code try's to dereference the pointer after being freed, your program will crash. This happens to a lot of experienced programmers.
This could corrupt users data. delete p_int;
p_int = NULL;
1. If you can deference a pointer after the memory is freed, why can't you just delete the pointer?
2. If you can do 1, how do you delete the pointer using code?
3. Every thing I've read says that free memory is handed out in a sequenced order. I don't believe that is true at all. I may be wrong. Why can't you put the data in any number of places if it will fit. Isn't the compiler smart enough to know where bytes (bits)and pieces are stored?
4. If you storing anything in free memory must use a pointer to it?
5. Can a pointer or something similar be used with stack memory?
When I try to run this, I only get the message "Material pointer is null". So, somehow the pointer is null after the hitObjects-function is called, even though it isn't inside that function.
So I'm writing a small program for class, and for some reason I keep getting an error when trying to initialize head to NULL. Even threw in the namespace just to see, nothin'.
#ifndef NUMBERLIST_H #define NUMBERLIST_H using namespace std;
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There's my header file. Not sure what I'm doing wrong with the constructor.
EDIT: Got it to work with nullptr, but still curious why that isn't working
in the below program for both class pointers pointing to null. Class contains normal function executing but class contains virtual function getting segmentation fault.
m_gradient() constructor is called to construct m_gradient, which in turns sets a variable called m_S to NULL(0), then in the assignment operator, because the m_S is NULL, Visual Studio throws an exception saying that destination pointer is null, but it's not fatal. I don't like that to happen because I have to press ignore many many times when the program is debugged, how can I fix this bug (not mine) to avoid the null destination pointer exception?
As an intermediate layer, the function calls boost unbounded array operator = which in turns calls std::copy which results in this error
lets say I have a pointer p_unit of type c_unit* (c_unit is an a.b.c.)
I have a function that returns a pointer to a new c_unit object:
c_unit * man_add_unit() { c_unit * local_p_unit; unsigned short int local_run_code; print_man_add_menu(); local_run_code = get_a_run_code(); // this bit just gets user input switch (local_run_code)
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I assign that to p_unit, then add it to a vector v_units:
p_unit = man_add_unit(); v_units.push_back(p_unit); cout << "New unit added. ";
The whole program runs on a loop, and another thing the user can do is to print out data on c_unit objects pointed to by v_units. The problem is, in that function up there ^ I give the user the option to go back to main menu without creating a unit.
Since "local_p_unit" is declared but not assigned an initial value, I'm guessing the function would return a "null" pointer (which is what's hanging me up). If I just let this run with the above code, and go to print out the unit data, the program crashes.
I tried to make an if thing with p_unit == 0 but this always returns false and doesn't catch the "bad" unit that will subsequently cause a crash.
Btw, I have considered assigning a reference to a generic c_unit object to that there local_p_unit so it won't return null, then remove pointers to that object from v_units at the end of the loop.. But I know there's got to be a better way.
struct mystruct{ int n; }; class mscope{ public: std::vector<mystruct> mv;
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So I have a vector of structs and I want to traverse it, find a struct that matches a constraint and obtain a pointer to that struct. I made a function for this purpose which takes a number and an empty pointer that will store the reference. However, after function returns the pointer becomes null. What could be causing this?
getting an invalid null pointer error message after a successful build. This program is supposed to ask for firstName, lastName, age and maJor and keep doing so until the age that is input is 0 and then the program closes. Here is what I have.
#include <iostream> #include <string> using namespace std;
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <iostream> using namespace std; class singleTon {
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this is a singleton pattern first,it doesn't matter, why I could delete this pointer twice?because the gcc compiler?That mean in the surface, "delete pInstance1;" this movement just mark the memory pInstance1 has been deleted but not real?does any one encounter this phenomenon?
I'm tying to create a program that evaluates all possible actions for a certain problem.
So what i'm basically trying to do is to create a sequence of actions, evaluate them to check if it's the best sequence, change the sequence, evaluate again and so on until all possible scenarios are exhausted, leaving the best one in the end.
My approach to this at first was to create a tree of all possible options and then evaluate each branch. Since there are a lot of possible cases i ran out of memory while the program was still creating the tree. I changed this to create just a branch, evaluate it and then modify it.
I was still getting memory problems. I declared a class tNode and declared a vector<tNode*> branch. Then i created all the nodes i needed for that branch with branch.push_back( new tNode() ). When i wanted to modify the branch i simply used branch.pop_back() and again a branch.push_back( new tNode() ). I figured i was getting the problem because although i clear the vector, i don't actually clear the reference in memory. Is this correct? If so, how can i actually delete the memory space and not just the pointer in the vector?
struct Point {int* a; int b;}; vector<vector<Point> > numbers; vector<int> example;
The numbers vector has a matrix of a sort and each of the members are pointing to one member in the example vector. A member numbers.at(2).at(3).a is pointing at example.at(3). Now, can I remotely delete a member in the example vector using the pointers? Like so:
delete (*(numbers.at(2).at(3).a));
I know there is a more convenient way to delete members, but this is a very specific case I'm working on.
An attempt to create a class which is basically a mimic of vector<int> i don't seem to know how to delete pointer x in a destructor to free memory, also on pushback and pushfront methods, i can't free y when i implement delete[] y; y=NULL; i get some NULL out put when cout 'ing the object in main, why is that happening and how do i free memory y.
#include<iostream> using namespace std; class vectorOfint{ int* x; int size; public: vectorOfint();
Goal: To allocate some memory as a char*, read in some binary data, re-interpret it as a float* and then free the memory.
My code looks like:
void someFunction(float* &result) { char * tmp = new char[1000]; //...Fill the char buffer here... result = (float*)tmp; //Reinterpret binary data as floats
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Is the cast back to char* necessary on the red line (or could I have validly left it as float*)? Would it be different if I had written char * tmp = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*1000); on the blue line (and correspondingly used free (char*)floatData on the red line?
I am looking at one of the functions of an exercise:
void escape(char * s, char * t) { int i, j; i = j = 0; while ( t[i] ) { /* Translate the special character, if we have one */ switch( t[i] ) {
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Notice the while loop evaluates the current value in t to true or false. When we hit the null terminator, does that get evaluated as 0 and hence evaluates as a falsy value so the while loop exits?
But I don't know how to this. I could have done this without pointers with if statments but I want to do it with pointers because it were a exercise to do.
When you login to my site my loginservice which is done by ajax and json make a session called context.Session["Name"]. With BreakPoints it shows that everything is good and the variables are in place. However when I use Session["Name"] it comes out as null.
I will add my code at the bottem not
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq;
I have a class called Book and I am trying to create a dynamic pointer based array of the class. When I try to run the program I keep getting the error: pointer being freed was not allocated at the line of code that says "delete [] A;". I am using Xcode to run the program.
Book *changeArraySize(Book *A, int &size, double factor) { int i; int newsize = size*factor; Book *A2 = new Book[newsize];
