Re: Using vector as class member lead to Data Abort error

From:
"Jason .Y" <lin.yang.jason@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:22:14 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<2e6d1d09-28f8-483a-b55a-b6fb3611072e@d32g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>
On 2=D4 20=C8=D5, =C9=CF=CE=E72=CA=B107=B7=D6, Joseph M. Newcomer <newco.=
...@flounder.com> wrote:

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:34:01 -0800 (PST), "Jason .Y" <lin.yang.ja...@gmai=

l.com> wrote:

Hi, I'm coding on windows mobile 6 and I have meet a strange problem,
which I have already tried to Google it, but still cann't work it out.
here is my problem:

there is a class with avectoras member as below:
code:
/**********MyTest.h****************/
#pragma once
#include <string>
#include <vector>

class CMyTest
{
public:
       CMyTest(void);
public:
       ~CMyTest(void);

private:
       vector<string> m_vecString;


****
Be very, very careful about the use of 'private' and 'protected'. 'priva=

te' has a lot

more semantics than just "not-public" (see note below)
****

};

/*****************************/

and I also have a dialog class as below,which has CMyTest class
object:
/**************Mobile_Test**************/
// Mobile_TestDlg.h

#pragma once
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include "InfoDlg.h"
#include "MyTest.h"

#define WM_MSGWHITSTR (WM_USER+193)


****
You should not be using WM_USER-based symbols here, and you should NEVER =

name a

user-defined message as "WM_" anything because WM_ is reserved for Micros=

oft (the number

of times people have wasted hours trying to find a user-defined message i=

n the MSDN

documentation is amazing!) Use WM_APP-based or Registered Window Message=

s, and use a

prefix other than WM_ for your own messages.
****

class CMobile_TestDlg : public CDialog
{
public:
       CMobile_TestDlg(CWnd* pParent = NULL);

       enum { IDD = IDD_MOBILE_TEST_DIALOG };

       protected:
       virtual void DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX);

protected:
       HICON m_hIcon;

       virtual BOOL OnInitDialog();
#if defined(_DEVICE_RESOLUTION_AWARE) && !defined
(WIN32_PLATFORM_WFSP)
       afx_msg void OnSize(UINT /*nType*/, int /*cx*/, int /*cy*/);
#endif
       DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()

       /*================Data====

=================*/

public:
       BYTE m_sharedDataArray[521];
private:
       CMyTest m_test; //!!!!


****
Did you really mean "private" (as in, "I deliberately choose to not allow=

 subclasses to

inherit") or "private" (as in, I mean, "not public, and should have said =

'protected'

instead")?
****

public:
       static UINT Reader(LPVOID pParam);
       static UINT Writer(LPVOID pParam);

public:
       afx_msg void OnBnClickedButtonOk();
       LRESULT OnMsgwithStr(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);
public:
       afx_msg void OnBnClickedButtonTest();

};

/****************************/

this program compiled fine, but when I run it on Debug mode, I get
error as below:

Platform Type : PocketPC
DataAbort: Thread=97b0aa40 Proc=8c3e89e0 'Mobile_Test.exe'
AKY=00400001 PC=00018c38(Mobile_Test.exe+0x00008c38) RA=0001981c
(Mobile_Test.exe+0x0000981c) BVA=2e29f8f9 FSR=00000001
Unhandled exception at 0x00018c38 in Mobile_Test.exe: 0x80000002:
Datatype misalignment.

and this error seems to happen in the constructor of CTest. because
when I run it step by step, it turns out the error is happened at :
/************xutility.h*******************/
__CLR_OR_THIS_CALL _Container_base()
               : _Myfirstiter(0)
               { // construct childless container
               }
/****************************/


****
Well, it is looking like adataalignment problem. What are the variables =

in question?

What is the value of 'this', for example? You didn't give anything useful=

 here. Note that

most Pocket PC architectures are RISC architectures, and this means they =

really, really

care aboutdataalignment. You have a weird size in your class, [521], whi=

ch seems to be

a random number. However, if you had your packing set incorrectly, then =

there is no

padding that follows and the next value will be misaligned. Irrelevant o=

n an x86,

critical on a RISC machine.

I don't know what a BVA is, but it is 9, and that looks odd. And that's =

both 'odd' as in

"not a multiple of 2" and odd as in "it is unusual to see an address on a=

 RISC machine

that is not a multiple of 2, 4 or 8". If you changed the random number 5=

21 to 522 or 524,

does the problem go away?

The fact that it compiles does not guarantee its correctness.
                                joe
***

I have no idea why this error happened, Any assistance would be
appreciated.

Thx


Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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