C++ :: Validity Of New / Delete Pair (or Malloc / Free) After Pointer Casting
Dec 22, 2012
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
[Code] ....
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?
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Nov 5, 2014
There is a part in the lesson that explains how malloc is used to allocate free memory to a pointer and gives us 2 examples:
Code:
float *ptr = malloc( sizeof(*ptr) ); and Code: float *ptr;
ptr = malloc( sizeof(*ptr) );
From my logic in the first case we allocate the memory to *ptr and in the second to ptr.
It's a bit confusing, am I missing something?
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Feb 25, 2015
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();
[Code] .....
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Jun 13, 2014
Consider this program:
Code:
// sb_string class v1.04
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
typedef struct sb_string {
[Code] ....
And here is the output I got:
Code:
[harshvardhan@hari-rudra] ~/Desktop% gcc49 -o test test.c
[harshvardhan@hari-rudra] ~/Desktop% ./test
-before Value of len = 1
(in_function)-before Value of len = 1
(in_function)-after Value of len = 1
-after Value of len = 1 I was trying to make a little easier to work with string. Once the memory is allocated by malloc via sb_init() function, the sb_massacre function wasn't working to deallocate the memory. I had used multiple versions of gcc and clang but the result is same.
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Apr 6, 2014
This program works as expected:
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
typedef struct {
unsigned long long int address;
float current;
unsigned char pressure_units;
}
[code]....
But I don't like how I had to use malloc and free. Is there a different way to accomplish copying the string into a char pointer without resorting to dynamic memory allocation?
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Apr 17, 2014
My application calls malloc in multiple subroutines, finally releasing all using free. This is done using my zalloc library (see my other post: [URL] .....
Somehow, when the applications tries to detect the available ammount of memory at the end of the test (allocating, freeing, testing), the freemem function gives me about 4-6MB less memory than at the start of the test? (out of 21MB available on the device at the start).
All memory is allocated and freed using the malloc/free routines within the library, with the exception of the SDL functions, which are registered externally on allocation and release.
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Nov 20, 2014
I have an assigment to make program which deletes from sentence all words with character count which is equal to pair number , for example - [ I like C ] and the result of this program should be [I C] because the word like contains 4 characters which is pair and it should be removed.
So I started writing my program and I am stuck at this block of code -
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
main () {
char text[100], blank[100];
int c=0,d=0,i,j;
gets(text);
[Code] ....
To explain what is happening - I go through all string and search for first ' ' space symbol and check its value. If it is pair then my program prints that it is not pair[because last character before space had not pair number of characters], but the hardest part comes in when i have two not pair words , because space takes one character and now when i check if i%2 == 1 the answer is false [0] for the second word .
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May 22, 2012
What is the correct syntax? I tried something like
Code:
class myclass {
multimap<int, void(*)()> mm_fn;
...
void afunction();
...
void anotherfunction(int anint){
mm_fn.insert(pair<int,void(*)()>(anint,afunction));
}
}
and the compiler does not like it.
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Dec 2, 2013
I came across some code and it's not clear why it is casting an unsigned char * to another pointer type only to free it right after. Here are the relevant structures:
Code:
struct _Edje_Message {
Edje *edje;
Edje_Queue queue;
Edje_Message_Type type;
int id;
unsigned char *msg;
[Code] .....
As you can see, _Edge_Message has a *msg field, but in the function below, they cast it to the other two structure types inside the case blocks of the switch statement only to free it. What is the point or advantage of doing this?
Code:
void
_edje_message_free(Edje_Message *em) {
if (em->msg) {
int i;
switch (em->type) {
[Code] ......
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Feb 24, 2013
how is the best way to free unsigned pointer array allocated with cmallc?
Code:
uint8_t *buf;
buf = cs_calloc(ca->len + 13);
i do like this , but i know this is not quite right , since i got compile warning passing argument 1 of ‘free’ makes pointer from integer without a cast
Code:
for (i = 0; i < ca->len + 13; i++)
{
free(buf[i]);
buf[i] = NULL;
}
free(buf); do i need to free each element of array like above?
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Jan 6, 2014
I am confused whether 'malloc'ing an array of pointers and pointer to a group of arrays are the same.
Suppose I need an integer pointer to a group of arrays of 2 elements each.
int (*LR)[2];
So to dynamically allocate this pointer for M number of arrays suppose, then what is the correct syntax?
int M;
scanf("%d",&M);
int (*LR)[2];
LR = (int*)malloc(2*sizeof(int));
Whether this is correct??
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Oct 26, 2014
==39800== Invalid free() / delete / delete[] / realloc()
==39800== at 0x4D9D: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:477)
==39800== by 0x10000C471: Tokenizer::~Tokenizer() (in ./a.out)
==39800== by 0x10000C424: Tokenizer::~Tokenizer() (in ./a.out)
==39800== by 0x100001B8B: main (in ./a.out)
==39800== Address 0x10002a778 is 8 bytes inside a block of size 7,208 alloc'd
[Code] ....
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Jan 8, 2014
I'm trying to keep track of the size of blocks of memory that a pointer points to. No matter what I do, this code below always outputs the integer 8.
If I change 1000 to 5, I still get 8. If I change it to 0, I get 8... If I change it to -1, I get 8. If I change int *a to double *a, I get 8. If I take away the & symbol, I get 8. If I use *& instead, I get 8.
Why? I want it to output 1000. If I change that to 500, I want it to output 500.
int *a;
a = malloc(1000 * sizeof(int));
int j = sizeof(&a);
printf("%d", j);
I want to build my skills where I can allocate, inspect and change memory sizes.
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Jan 4, 2015
void myfuncion(){
int *a = new int[10];
int b[10];
int *p = b;
delete a
delete p
}
I cant delete b and/or p but how can i check it if i can use delete or not?
i want to check if the pointer is pointing on function temp variable ( those what gets deleted after function ends .
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Sep 2, 2014
int * ptr = new int[5];
p += 2; //p now stores address of 3rd element in array
delete [] p;
what will be deleted??? all 5 elements or just 3rd, 4th and 5th elements of array(in result making a memory leak)
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Apr 15, 2013
let's say I have class LinkedList:
class LinkedList
{
public:
class Node
[Code]....
Do delete newL:
1) (*newL).~LinkedList
2) delete newL
3) delete[] newL
4) none of the above ;)
If the answer is 4, what should I do?
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Aug 7, 2014
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?
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Feb 22, 2012
environment : qt creator 4.7
code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
class singleTon {
[Code] ....
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?
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Jul 29, 2013
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?
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Apr 17, 2013
I have following:
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.
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Dec 3, 2013
I have little problem which causing memory leaks.
Parent > Multiple Child(Parent parent) > Child destructor deleting parent => next Child destructor crash
Example code: without using:
class Parent {
public:
Parent() {
for(int i = 0; i < x; ++i) {
for(int j = 0; j < y; ++j)
childs[i][j] = new Child(this);
[Code] ....
If you read code, on Parent destructor i = 0 & j = 1 its going crash.
Parent will be deleted aswell, but it give me assert: _block_type_is_valid(phead- nblockuse)
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Mar 23, 2014
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MAX_READ 2
int main( ) {
char * secret = "abecedarium consisting This is a string literal!";
[Code] ....
I am trying to test what happens in the sscanf converted types (command and string) if they are smaller, i got surprised that the printf worked, so i dont know why.
this code is just a test for what i want to do, what i really want to do is for example: i have this string from the stdin which must have the following format:
connect name.surname
So I need to check the cases when it is not the input that i want, namely if the name.surname is for example bigger than 30 chars. and also if it has the abecedary characters from the ascii...
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Sep 19, 2013
I'm building a cross-platform library which links to some other 3rd party libraries at run time (i.e. on Windows, the other libs will be available as DLLs whereas on Linux / OS-X etc they'd be shared objects, which are similar). For the sake of argument, one of those libraries is called "jack".
Obviously, our app can't guarantee which version of the other libs will be on the user's system (or even that they'll be installed at all). So our code is littered with statements like this:-
Code:
if (!jack_port_type_get_buffer_size) {
warning << _("This version of JACK is old - you should upgrade to a newer version") << endmsg;
} else {
some_var = jack_port_type_get_buffer_size();
}
We link to the latest version of jack, where that symbol is declared like so:-
Code:
size_t jack_port_type_get_buffer_size();
One problem is that it doesn't even seem to be an exported symbol (although that wouldn't affect the other platform builds). But apart from that, our customer might have an old copy of jack installed or even no copy! We seem to be making the assumption that if our customer has an up-to-date version, jack_port_type_get_buffer_size will be set to a valid address - but in all other case it'll be magically set to zero (there's nothing in our code that sets it to zero).
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Apr 24, 2013
I wonder how can I improve my validity check for user input? I only want them to key in certain range of digit.
Also for my validity check, when I key in character such as ABC, it lead to infinity loop
Here is my code : Code: /*Write a program that can calculate user's age by getting user input their birth date.*/
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <time.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int yyyy, mm, dd; //year, month, day
int i = 0; //for the sake of validity check
[Code]...
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Feb 14, 2012
is it possible to alter the Pair function to make it use 3 elements?
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Jan 8, 2013
I want to use a dataset of type set which will have the type pair<char,string> or pair<string,string>. How can i insert values into the set, because i have to initialize the set and will not change the set during the program.
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