Re: Help with solving seemingly mutually exclusive problems please

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:51:31 -0400
Message-ID:
<ffi9v3$gie$1@news.datemas.de>
Zilla wrote:

On Oct 19, 6:10 pm, Zilla <zill...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

On Oct 19, 6:01 pm, "Victor Bazarov" <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:

Zilla wrote:

On Oct 19, 5:02 pm, red floyd <no.s...@here.dude> wrote:

Zilla wrote:

I put everything in one file for ease of use; also I have
#include <*.h> files instead of the <*> since my compiler is
pre-ANSI C so it needs the .h

#include <iostream.h>
#include <iomanip.h>
#include <string.h>

class Cmd {
public:
   virtual ~Cmd() {}
   char* printCmd()
   {
      return _name;
   }
protected:
   Cmd() {}
   char _name[16];
};

class ACmd : public Cmd {
public:
   static Cmd* getInstance()
   {
      if (!_instance) {
         _instance=new ACmd;
      }
      return _instance;
   }
   ~ACmd() {}
private:
   ACmd()
   {
      strcpy(_name, "ACmd");
   }
   static Cmd* _instance;
};

class BCmd : public Cmd {
public:
   static Cmd* getInstance()
   {
      if (!_instance) {
         _instance=new BCmd;
      }
      return _instance;
   }
   ~BCmd() {}
private:
   BCmd()
   {
      strcpy(_name, "ACmd");


I suspect your error lies here.

   }
   static Cmd* _instance;
};

typedef struct {
   Cmd* cmd;
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How? ACmd and BCmd are singletons, and that's how one codes one.
See Design Patterns book.


You're thinking so much outside the box that you aren't seeing the
obvious mistake. Hint: it's a copy-and-paste error. Look at it
again
and this time really try to see what the function is and what it
needs
to do (what every statement needs to do), and what it actually does
(and what the effect of it is).

V
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Ah, the _name value, but that's beside the point - I don't care what
the names are - make them same. Look at the pointer values that I
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Ok here's output for correcte _name cut & paste error

With cmds->cmd=cmds1->cmd; uncommented...
cmds->cmd: ACmd 0x0x40004820 ,cmds1->cmd: BCmd 0x0x40004840
cmds->cmd: BCmd 0x0x40004840 ,cmds1->cmd: BCmd 0x0x40004840
equal


"Equal" because they are the same pointers (which you compare).

With *cmds->cmd=*cmds1->cmd; uncommented
cmds->cmd: ACmd 0x0x40004820 ,cmds1->cmd: BCmd 0x0x40004840
cmds->cmd: BCmd 0x0x40004820 ,cmds1->cmd: BCmd 0x0x40004840


No "equal" because the pointers are different (and you compare pointers
instead of objects).

Again, in the first case, value AND content of cmds->cmd changed, but
if passed. In the seconde case, ONLY content changed, bugt if fails.

I want ONLY content change, and passing if. TY again.


If you only want the contents to change the assignment should be to
the object, not to the pointer, and comparison has to be between the
two objecs, not between pointers.

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