Re: Segmentation fault

From:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:08:24 +0100
Message-ID:
<gog0l9$siu$3@news.motzarella.org>
* LL:

#include <stdio.h>

float* dup(float* farr[], int n) {
  float* fdarr;
  for (int i=0; i<n; i++) {
    fdarr[i]=*farr[i];
  }
  return fdarr;
}


Indicates basic lack of understanding of pointers.

Just Say No to raw pointers.

At least at this point in your learning curve. :-)

main() {


'main' must have result type 'int', and C++ does not in general support the old
implicit 'int' of C.

  float *f1=new float(1.0);
  float *f2=new float(2.0);
  float *f3=new float(3.0);
  float* farr_s[]={f1,f2,f3};

  float* fdarr_s;
  fdarr_s=dup(farr_s,3);
  
  for (int i; i<3; i++) {
    printf("%f ", fdarr_s[i]); // Segmentation fault
  }
}


Solution: use std::vector for the arrays, use C++ iostreams (cout, <<) for i/o.

Cheers & hth.,

- Alf

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