Re: Inserting into a map corrupting the map data

From:
Tom Widmer <tom.widmer@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.stl
Date:
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:22:19 +0100
Message-ID:
<O2bk#zv1KHA.220@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
Aditya wrote:

Hi All,

 I am having a map of <long, long>. See the definition of the map

typedef map<long, long> CIndexToDataMap;
CIndexToDataMap m_IndexToDataMap;

This map is member of a COM component(dll) running in 64bit platform.

This map is shared between two threads(Thread1Method and
Thread2Method) and protected by Critical Section. Thread1Method
inserting the data and Thread2Method accessing the data based on the
index.

When Thread1Method inserting the data then data corruption is
happening. Before inset i dump the size and all the values of the map
and everthing is correct. But after inserting size is correct (suppose
11) but data showing only few (2) records. Find the Thread1Method()
and Thread2Method implementation

[snip code]

Please suggest whats wrong. Thanks in advance


The code you've posted looks ok to me, so the problem is likely to be
elsewhere. Remember, a bug in code that is executed prior to the code
you posted can easily cause later code to behave in a random way. The
most likely bugs that cause this kind of problem are heap corruption
ones - test a debug version with all debugging options enabled (e.g.
define _HAS_ITERATOR_DEBUGGING, _SECURE_SCL, etc.). You could also try
cutting out code until the problem goes away.

Tom

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