How can I view the number of bytes that have been allocated by using the malloc function?I tried:
mem = (float*)malloc(num*sizeof(float));
printf("The amount of memory allocated using malloc is %d.", mem);
Note: The variable "num" in my program is equal to 7.But every time I run the program, this value changes.
==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
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We have a proprietary third-party library that we make calls into via an API. Through a series of API calls, this library manipulates specific sets of data. Prior to making these calls, there are some API calls that are necessary in order to initialize the library in preparation for a specific set of data. One of the calls tells the library to allocate some memory and then perform whatever initialization is required. This particular API call returns a pointer to char (char*) that is later used as an argument for a few other API calls. My question is... Is there a way, or maybe some kind of trick, to tell exactly how much memory was allocated? It doesn't matter whether or not the solution (if there is one) is C++ related, or some series of OS commands. FYI: We're running on Redhat Linux 6.2 and using GNU C++ 4.4.6.
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int *p, ar[100];
p = (int *)malloc(sizeof ar);
.. *p is a pointer variable, but what means another * here --> (int *)?
Suppose if i code like this,
while( true ) {
int x;
// do some thing;
// break on some condition match;
}
whether memory is allocated for ints x one time or each time it hits int x.
I am writing a very basic database in C++ and I am accessing the data from a web browser. I am using the opensource Mongoose web server code....
I have an issue...
The way the DB works is this: on starting, the DB loads a json file of all of the data into it. I have a class called DatabaseLoader that does this - it is the class that gets rewritten depending on the data structure of the json.
This is passed to vectors (vector<Node*> and vector<Edge*>) as references from Graph object.
Once the DatabaseLoader has finished it can be destroyed and any memory allocated objects it created (except the ones in those two vectors).
From then on, the Graph object is in charge of all of the elements in the database that are stored in the two vectors. When the user browses to htpp://127.0.0.1:8000 they see the json representing each object in the vectors.
All good so far....
However, when I repeatedly hit refresh in my browser (and call me insane...) at quite a fast speed I get this error:
Code:
main(29855,0x7fff76763310) malloc: *** error for object 0x7f98b2829408: incorrect checksum for freed object - object was probably modified after being freed.
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
[1] 29855 abort ./main testing.json
It seems to me this would be if I tried to "delete" and object twice, or if one of my objects was overwriting memory somewhere. However I am not recreating anything, I am just looping over the vectors and printing out the content. When I refresh slowly, I dont see this happen - i did it quite a lot of times, but when I do it fast I think it is happening.
So is there any possibility of me hitting the c++ web server to quickly and it is trying to process the data twice, causing some sort of memory error - i.e do I need to implement threading or something??
I can paste code, but there is quite a lot now....
For static variables when the memory will be allocated? During compilation or linking or loading time? In below program i am getting error :
(Error C2099: initializer is not a constant in microsoft visual studio) .
If i initialize x = 10 or any constant it works , why?
Code:
main() {
int i=10;
static int x = i;//error ?
if(x==i)
printf("Equal");
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I'm trying to free allocated memory for structure. It seems like free() gets only pointer and not regular types . my question is basic and simple – is passing pointer to free() frees the pointer or the variable it points at? or both?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a question about memory allocation.I have a function that calls a lot of object constructors, which in return these constructors will allocate a lot of memory.Now, in my program I am sure that if I first call this function , say it will call the constructor of 100 object.If I call this function again and again, I am sure that it will only call the constructor 100 times again, and thus I am sure that the memory allocated in the first call can be reused again.
How can I reuse the memory allocated in the first call?Can I use something like boost:object_pool so that I can tell the pool to restart from the begining and do not allocate extra memory, just use what you already have?
does memory reserved by malloc() get freed when the function it is called in finishes?
View 6 Replies View RelatedThere 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?
Consider this program:
Code:
// sb_string class v1.04
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
typedef struct sb_string {
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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.
I have a question about the KLU library for LU factorization of sparse matrices. The KLU library accepts a pointer to a memory allocator function, by default it is malloc(). Then it uses this pointer to allocate the memory required.
I want to extend the library and I now have object of classes. I want to use the operator new instead of malloc to allocate the memory. In the same time I want the new operator to call the constructors of the objects. Is there a way to do it?
I’m writing an application for raw image processing but I cannot allocate the necessary block of memory, the following simple code gives me an allocation error.
double (*test)[4];
int block = 32747520;
test = new double[block][4];
off course with smaller block size (i.e. int block = 327475;) it works fine. Is there an allocation limit? How it is possible to deal with big blocks of memory?
I have a pretty big std::vector<matrix>, where matrix is a custom class defined by me. I would like to know how much memory has been allocated to that vector at a certain point in time. Is there any way of doing this in c++?
Or is my only shot, taking a look at the task monitor of windows/unix/whatever at execution time to estimate this?
What is wrong with my function why does it spit out huge numbers? And how do i use malloc or calloc to create an array in dynamic memory, and return a pointer to this array
Code:
#include <stdio.h>#include <stdlib.h>
int fibonacci(int n)
{
int i;
long int fib[40];
fib[0]=0;
fib[1]=1;
for(i=2;i<n;i++){
fib[i] = fib[i-1] + fib[i-2];
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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.
When does malloc() return null ? I want to allocate a big virtual memory which can not possibly fit on RAM, so most of it will be stored on disk. I am going to access the data sequentially so at any one time the data I am working on will fit in RAM. So I am hoping the OS will move the required pages in and out of disk. I can achieve this behavior manually by allocating the required blocks on RAM but this is rather tedious. Say I have an array a[100][10000000000]. At any one time I am working only on a[i-1][], a[i][], a[i+1][] which can fit in RAM but not the whole array. So how do I allocate the array so that I can work on it using for loops for(i=0;i<100;i++) without handling the page movements myself?
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI am having issues freeing memory that I allocated when adding a node to a doubly linked list. I have tried adding free() at the end of the remove function from the list with no luck. I have tried using all sorts of temporary nodes and dummy nodes to free without losing node information. Have tried storing current node, moving to next one, then freeing the old current one, without luck. Everytime I try to free a node it destroys the list. It loses important node information and can no longer operate properly and I am met with all sorts of memory crashes. I will post my add and delete nodes functions here:
/**
* Adds a node to a given list
*
* @param q pointer a a list
* @param node pointer to the node to be added
*/
void list_add(list *q, path *node){
path *pn;
if(!(pn = (path*)malloc(sizeof(*pn)))){
perror("malloc");
exit(1);
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Those free's at the end are to get rid of nodes I malloced in find_path. This find_path works really well when run once lol. It finds shortest path and prints it no problem, but doing it over and over again will be problematic as it is leaking almost every bit of memory it uses />.
So in short, how to free an allocated node when I remove it from a list while still being able to use it? I have tried moving the remove function to different locations like the end of the file and still no luck. I even tried allocating a new current_node each iteration of while loop, using it, then freeing it at the end of the while loop and took out the allocation in the list_add() function. This didn't work either />. How to stop the leakage.
I have a program which call only one time malloc at the start of the program. When running, I see with 'process-explorer.exe' that memory is growing in little steps. Is this normal? why?
Using Windows 7
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.
I am trying to store each value of a column from a text file into an dynamically allocated array, which needs to be globally declared for further usage in the program.The input textfile contains the following:
34932 13854 13854 2012-01-07
172098 49418 53269 2012-01-07
I have written the following code:
Code:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>
int main()
}
[code]....
The commented printf line gives the entire values of the column, which proves that the file is correctly being read.But on compiling this program I get both compiler warnings and finally segmentation fault.
Having some frustrating issues trying to free memory from a dynamically allocated array of pointers to linked lists. I think the problem is in how I initialize the pointers to NULL. Is there a more elegant way to have the program recognize that the list is empty so it knows to create a head node for the linked list in the function 'add_end_stub_to_array'?
I ran the code through Valgrind and it says that memory is definitely lost from this array.
This is the structure definition.
Code: struct stub_edge {
int loc_id;
int anim_type;
int mkt;
struct stub_edge *next_node;
};
Here is the code snippet from main allocating and deallocating memory to the array.
Code:
struct stub_edge **stub_list = (struct stub_edge **)malloc( sizeof(struct stub_edge *) * 12);
for (i = 0; i < 12; i++)
{
stub_list[i] = (struct stub_edge *)malloc(sizeof(struct stub_edge));
stub_list[i] = NULL;
}
stub_list = add_end_stub_to_array(end_stubs, stub_list);
destroy_end_stub_array(stub_list);
Here the function for adding nodes to the lists by reading through a dynamically allocated 2D array. (The end_stubs array is ordered by month and each linked list represents events occuring within the month).
Code:
struct stub_edge **add_end_stub_to_array(int **end_stubs, struct stub_edge **list)
{
long int i = 0;
int mon = 0;
struct stub_edge *current_node1;
struct stub_edge *new_node1;
int break1 = 0;
while(i < num_edges && break1 == 0 && mon < 12)
[Code]...
Here is the function for freeing memory from the list.
Code:
void destroy_end_stub_array(struct stub_edge **list)
{
if(list != NULL)
{
int mon = 0;
struct stub_edge *current_node1;
struct stub_edge *new_node1;
for(mon = 0; mon < 12; mon++)
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I'm trying to make a program that allows the user to input an arbitrary amount of numbers and finding the largest of all the inputs but I keep having problems with the output.
javascript:tx('
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
//******************************************
//CLASS COMPARATOR
//******************************************
class comparator {
public:
comparator();
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And regardless of what numbers I enter, I always get the output of 10. Also I got the EOF idea from my textbook so if there is a better way of doing this I'd like to hear it. I don't know any clear ways that looks nice to end the while loop when the user doesn't have any more numbers to enter.
I was trying to implement Floyd's cycle finding algorithm to find loops in linked list. I implemented my code using 2 pointers but I am not able to figure out why my output is always is 0 even though a loop exists in the code.
#include "iostream"
using namespace std;
struct Node{
[Code]....