Re: Leak or Crash. Don't understand why

From:
Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:12:13 -0400
Message-ID:
<hur6eu$eob$1@news.eternal-september.org>
On 6/10/2010 11:10 AM, Luk Jack wrote:

On 6???10???, ??????9???17???, Ulrich Eckhardt<eckha...@satorlaser.com> wrote:

Luk Jack wrote:

On 6???10???, ??????7???09???, Ulrich Eckhardt<eckha...@satorlaser.com> wrote:

1. Wrapping something into a class that only contains functions and no
actual state (which is what your cMath class looks like, though I'm not
sure) is wrong. If you need, use a namespace instead. I guess you have
this habit and probably a few others from Java or similar languages that
force you to use classes for everything.

[...]

Actually, I've got an attribute in my cMath class, so isn't it
stateless, is it? not too sure :)


Yes, that would be a valid reason to put it into a class.

Uli

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class cMath
{
public:
    cMath() { }
    ~cMath() { }
    double Integrate(const Formula& f);
    void Derive(const Formula& f);
    Terms *Solve_Term(const Terms& t);
    double Power(double x, int p);
// Formula m_vNomralFunctions; // Normal Functions for generating
approx function
    const Formula& getFormula() { return m_vFormula; }
private:
    Formula m_vFormula;

};

inline void cMath::Derive(const Formula& f)
{

    Terms *t1 = new Terms();
    for (unsigned int i = 0; i< f.size(); i++)
    {
        t1 = Solve_Term(f[i]);

If this happens, the previous value of 't1' is lost. Since you allocate
't1' here, you lose *that* memory if you even enter the body of the
loop. And since you allocate something in 'Solve_Term', you are going
to lose *that* memory if your body executes more than once.

Consider switching to pure passing-by-value. Just stop using 'new' and
'delete' altogether.

         m_vFormula.push_back(*t1);
    }
    delete t1;

}

inline Terms *cMath::Solve_Term(const Terms& t)
{
    Terms *t1 = new Terms();
    t1->coefficient = t.coefficient;
    t1->degree = t.degree-1;
    t1->coefficient = t1->coefficient*t.degree;

    if (t1->degree< 0)
        t1->coefficient = 0;

    //delete t1;
    return t1;

}


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