Re: how to best use valarrays as constructor arguments

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:22:01 -0400
Message-ID:
<e8turb$jiv$1@news.datemas.de>
Gerard Kramer wrote:

Victor Bazarov wrote:

Gerard Kramer wrote:

Presently I have some difficulties with the following type of code
which is understandably causing a segfault:
[..]

It will fail at runtime because, as I understand it, mx is a
zero-size valarray and hence mx[1] does not exist.


It *will* fail or it *does* fail?


It *will* fail (by looking at the code) and so it *does* (by compiling
and running it.)


The reason I asked was that I took your code, compiled it and ran it,
and it ran fine on VC++ 2005.

With the exception of using assignment instead of initialisation and
some superfluousness and extraneous whitespace, your code is fine,
AFAICT.

Yet (for a simple numerical code) I would like something similar to
the above to work, i.e. I'd like to pass a valarray of predefined
size to the constructor of a class to initialize a class-member
valarray, say mx, and after reference to mx's elements as mx[0],
mx[1] etc. As a C++ starter I'm confused about the best way to work
around the problem in the code above. Any advice would be welcome.


What problem? Prove to us there is a problem, post the results of
your run, not your speculations. Step through it in a debugger.
Print out the *size* of 'mx' instead of its element. Anyway, do
something, don't just stand there.


I'm sorry? Well, thanks for the reply. As far as I can see I didn't
speculate about anything.


You said "it will fail". Any statement about the future is speculation
by definition. Don't take offence, it just is.

Then you said 'mx is a zero-size valarray'. Have you actually looked?
Have you tried running it under a debugger? Have you tried printing out
the size of the 'mx' valarray?

Just to be clear: There is no problem, but


I am sorry. No problem?

I'd like to learn how to get a certain thing done, namely:

The best way to somehow to use a valarray <double> as an argument of a
class constructor to initialize a class member variable of type
valarray <double>.

I can't see how to do that.


But you *did* that. Aside from small things that don't matter in this
particular case, your code is [supposed to be] working.

That's all. I'm sorry in case that bothered you. Won't happen again.


Nothing bothered me. Nothing to apologise for. You made some statements
that prompted me to ask more questions. Just answer them.

V
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