Re: malloc and memcpy

From:
Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@doezl.net>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:17:19 -0700
Message-ID:
<ho5r83tpep67g3tfh104etppjngneih2kn@4ax.com>
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:29:15 -0700, a7zulu@gmail.com wrote:

typedef struct FPARRAY{
   unsigned short iRows,
        iCols;
   double dArray[FPARRAY_SIZE];
} FPARRAY;

__declspec(dllexport) double initialize(LPFP st, LPFP h, LPFP ffd,
LPFP bt, int hr, int it, int ic)
{
    swap_table = (LPFP)malloc(sizeof(FPARRAY));

You should always check the return from malloc for success. An 800
element array of double should not be a problem but we have no idea
what else you are doing.

     memcpy(swap_table, st, sizeof(FPARRAY));

Are you sure that all the input arguments (e.g., st) have valid
non-NULL values?

     holidays = (LPFP)malloc(sizeof(FPARRAY));
    memcpy(holidays, h, sizeof(FPARRAY));
    futurefrontdate = (LPFP)malloc(sizeof(FPARRAY));
    memcpy(futurefrontdate, ffd, sizeof(FPARRAY));
    blend_table = (LPFP)malloc(sizeof(FPARRAY));
    memcpy(blend_table, bt, sizeof(FPARRAY));
    holiday_rule = hr;
    int_tech = it;
    int_curve = ic;
}

so essentially i wrote a dll, and I can get excel to pass to me these
things called FPARRAY structures. I comment a few of the malloc and
memcpy and the function is able to run a few times before crashing. i
am not exactly sure whats going


This certainly sounds like a space limitation issue. You are invoking
the DLL from Excel? Does Excel impose some constraint on the amount
of memory available for dynamic allocation?

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