Re: syncronization

From:
red floyd <no.spam.here@example.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:06:48 -0800
Message-ID:
<w7Qgl.9699$hc1.9359@flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com>
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?

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

=====================
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();
    }
}


What Kai-Uwe said, plus the obvious. ARe you initializing IDs properly
in the constructor? Why are you using a pointer to a queue?

To do what Kai-Uwe suggests, rewrite the loop:

     while (!rfidsock->IDs->empty())
     {
           if (current - rfidsock->IDs->front().second > duration)
                rfidsock->IDs->pop();
           else
                break;
     }

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