Re: wat is wrong in my code

From:
SG <s.gesemann@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:03:09 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<3228e1f3-0a79-4bca-8858-fffe826c7984@r8g2000yql.googlegroups.com>
On 16 Apr., 10:52, Pradeep <bubunia2000s...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,


Hello, Pradeep. Are you related to smilesonisamal@gmail ?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/browse_thread/thread/3a4a17f01=
cff3068/

 I want to copy intermediate elements from a vector to another.
 The problem is I am getting same value in m_Data[6] ...[11]for
 all elements. (&srcPtr[0] value- for exp 205).
 Am I missing anything?

    std::vector<uint_8*> (m_Data);


What kind of syntax is that?
Why don't you write

      std::vector<uint_8*> m_Data;

instead? Note: You're creating an EMPTY vector.

    uint8_t *srcPtr = new uint8_t[6];
    memset(static_cast<uint8_t*>(srcPtr), 0,(sizeof (uint8_t)* 6));


Why the static_cast? It's useless here.

    if(srcPtr)
    {
      srcPtr= // A API returning const_uint*
    }


The expression "new uint8_t[6]" -- provided uint8_t is a type --
returns a non-zero pointer or throws an exception. So the boolean
expression in the if-statement will always be false. Assuming
"const_uint" is equivalent to "const uint8_t" you can't convert these
pointer types without a const_cast.

    m_Data[6] = &srcPtr[0];
    m_Data[7] = &srcPtr[1];
    m_Data[8] = &srcPtr[2];
    m_Data[9] = &srcPtr[3];
    m_Data[10]= &srcPtr[4];
    m_Data[11]= &srcPtr[5];


For this to work safely you need m_Data.size()>=12. But your vector
is empty!

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Cheers!
SG

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