Re: Segmentation fault

From:
Paavo Helde <paavo@nospam.please.ee>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:30:41 -0600
Message-ID:
<Xns9BC3E50028212nobodyebiee@216.196.109.131>
LL <10464307@uts.edu.au> kirjutas:

On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:01:52 +0000, LL wrote:

#include <stdio.h>

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

main() {
  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
  }
}

I fixed it.

#include <stdio.h>

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

main() {
  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=dup(farr_s,3);

  for (int i=0; i<3; i++) {
    printf("%f ", fdarr_s[i]); // 1.0 2.0 3.0
  }
}


This still has no "int main()" and produces memory leaks. I hope this is
just an artificial extract of a real life problem of interfacing an
ancient badly written C library; otherwise it would be just wasting yours
and ours time.

Paavo

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