Re: "this" pointer get corrupted after function call

From:
"Krishs P." <krishs.patil@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 27 Jun 2012 06:24:43 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<389bbaa7-d2d2-4ea2-80da-ae4eb3949bf8@googlegroups.com>
On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 14:16:38 UTC+5:30, Ian Collins wrote:

On 06/27/12 08:35 PM, Krishs P. wrote:

On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 13:42:33 UTC+5:30, Ian Collins wrote:

On 06/27/12 07:39 PM, Krishs P. wrote:

On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 12:44:53 UTC+5:30, Alf P. Steinbach wrote=

:

On 27.06.2012 08:36, Krishs wrote:

Hi all,
    well this is pretty much confusion to me as well, but here is
scenario. I have two shared objects file and one loader executable.
    loader calls extern function in shared1 , which has one class ,
initialize it and run its method , which would call extern in share=

d2..

    after shared2 extern function returns, the "this" pointer get 0=

x00 in

A::Run(),
    any guess what would have been happened, I have using gcc versi=

on 4+

to build the project.

** loader.cpp
        - calls run_test(); in shared1.cpp

** shared1.cpp
          class A {
              public:
                   Run() { mum_tum(); doWell(); }
                   doWell() { }
          };

          extern void run_test() {
                  A *a = new A();
                  a->Run();
          }

** shared2.cpp
         extern void mum_tum() { }

thank you.


with three different method naming conventions in so short a code, p=

lus

a question of non-reproducable behavior where even the description o=

f

what's allegedly wrong is suspect, this is clearly a troll posting


thx for the reply . but, the code i am working with is pretty much bi=

g and complex, so I described the scenario with short pseudo code. The main=
 problem relies when actual this pointer of "class A" get vanished after ca=
ll to extern function in second shared dll. What I am concerned here is if =
it is case of stack corruption or something. I have checked similar case fr=
om gdb forum but no clue.

Please wrap your lines!

It looks like you problem may be windows rather than C++ related, have
you tried a windows group?

 

No actually, this is on linux with gcc compiler suite. here is short de=

bugging session information

 
Ah, dll is the wrong term then.
 
Are you sure everything is built with the same compiler and options?
 
--
Ian Collins


uhhhh pretty silly bug was that!!! after entire day on that finally i figur=
ed out what was going wrong

in mum_tum() function , mistakenly I had this line
memset(resolved_host_, 0 , sizeof(struct addrinfo));

and resolved_host_ was declared as struct addrinfo* type in header ...

and memset was doing what it has asked to do .. setting up 32 bytes to 0
causing this pointer memory corrupt .. :)

btw thanks you guys for your time.

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