Re: syncronization

From:
Kai-Uwe Bux <jkherciueh@gmx.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:35:16 -0500
Message-ID:
<gm0dd6$3bu$1@news.doubleSlash.org>
Chunekit Pong wrote:

when when I run the VirtualScreen.cpp code, it will crash like this
(screen shot captured)

http://www.oniva.com/upload/1356/crash.jpg

it is something related to pointers which i am no familiar with.

Basically,
1) RFIDSock Class - i defined a key value pair - ID / timestamp, then
I insert the key value pair into a queue.

2) VirtualScreen Class - I have a reference to RFIDSock object
(pointer) and I am accessing RFIDSock's "queue" object (*IDs) and pop
any object the timestamp is old enough.

since both RFIDSock / VirtualScreen Class - both function is keep
calling every seconds or miliseconds.

RFIDSock - is inserting to the queue
VirtualScreen - is removing element from the queue

will there be some syncrohization problem for both function accessing
the queue every mililseconds / seconds?


There will be synchronization issues if you have a multiple threads. In that
case, you need to make sure that only one thread accesses the queue at any
time. One typical way is to guard the queue by a mutex.

 

I am very messed up in pointers, is the crash related to just simple
mistake in pointers?


Could be. There is not enough code to say.

 

=====================
RFIDSock.h
=====================
#include <map>
#include <list>
#include <string>
#include <queue>
#include "VirtualScreen.h"

typedef const char* id_type;
typedef unsigned int timestamp_type;
typedef std::pair<id_type, timestamp_type> entry_type;

//class CVirtualScreen;
class CVirtualScreen;

class RFIDSock
{
public:
std::queue< entry_type > *IDs;

};

=====================
RFIDSock.cpp
=====================
#include "RFIDSock.h"
#include <queue>
#include <time.h>

class CVirtualScreen;

//--------------------------------------------------------------
void RFIDSock::OnDataReceived(const LPBYTE lpBuffer, DWORD dwCount)
{
entry_type entry;
entry.first = (const char*)m_bReceiveBuffer;
entry.second = seconds;

IDs->push( entry );

}
=====================
VirtualScreen.h
=====================
RFIDSock *rfidsock;

=====================
VirtualScreen.cpp
=====================
void VirtualScreen::ProcessMessages()
{
unsigned int current = time (NULL);
while ( current - rfidsock->IDs->front().second > duration){
  rfidsock->IDs->pop();
}


This while loop is peculiar. It assumes but does not ensure that the queue
is and stays non-empty. If you call front() on an empty queue, you have
undefined behavior. A core dump could very well be a manifestation of this.

}


Best

Kai-Uwe Bux

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