Re: class initialization problem, please help

From:
zl2k <kdsfinger@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:37:50 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<1ff8de52-ff78-455c-86bb-e2f377f22328@25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>
On Sep 26, 2:17 am, Triple-DES <DenPlettf...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 26 Sep, 05:04, zl2k <kdsfin...@gmail.com> wrote:

hi, there
Here is a simplified piece of code of my program, it compiles and runs
fine. However, valgrind shows it has uninitialized problem. What I am
doing wrong?

#ifndef DATA2_H
#define DATA2_H

class Data2{
public:
        int regionId;
        bool isLandscape;
        double parameters[16];
  Data2();

  ~Data2();};

#endif

#include "data2.h"
#include <iomanip>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

Data2::Data2(): regionId(-1), isLandscape(false)
{
        for (int i = 0; i < 16; i++)
                parameters[i] = 1;

}

Data2::~Data2()
{

}

int main(){
        char buffer[512] = "abc.bin";
        ofstream myfile;
        Data2 *dataArray = new Data2[10];

        myfile.open (buffer, ios::out | ios::binary);
        int *num = new int(10);
        myfile.write((char*)num, sizeof(int));
        myfile.write ((char*)dataArray, sizeof (Data2) * *num);
        myfile.close();
        delete num;
        delete [] dataArray;
        return 1;

}


Try the following:
  int data2size = sizeof(Data2);
  int membersize = sizeof(int) + sizeof(bool) + sizeof(double)*16;

What are these values on your system?
Does that tell you anything ? :)

DP


It's different! To make it simpler, the Data2 will only contains an
int and a bool, the data2size is 8 and membersize is 5. I am fine if
using 5 for output. The sizeof(ClassType) is bad, is it? Thanks a lot.
zl2k

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