Re: malloc and memcpy

From:
Alex Blekhman <xfkt@oohay.moc>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:56:25 +0300
Message-ID:
<O5Z7L0xvHHA.4800@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
a7zulu@gmail.com wrote:

typedef struct FPARRAY{
    unsigned short iRows,
         iCols;
    double dArray[FPARRAY_SIZE];
} FPARRAY;

__declspec(dllexport) double initialize(LPFP st, LPFP h, LPFP ffd,
LPFP bt, int hr, int it, int ic)
{
    swap_table = (LPFP)malloc(sizeof(FPARRAY));
    memcpy(swap_table, st, sizeof(FPARRAY));
    holidays = (LPFP)malloc(sizeof(FPARRAY));
    memcpy(holidays, h, sizeof(FPARRAY));
    futurefrontdate = (LPFP)malloc(sizeof(FPARRAY));
    memcpy(futurefrontdate, ffd, sizeof(FPARRAY));
    blend_table = (LPFP)malloc(sizeof(FPARRAY));
    memcpy(blend_table, bt, sizeof(FPARRAY));
    holiday_rule = hr;
    int_tech = it;
    int_curve = ic;
}

so essentially i wrote a dll, and I can get excel to pass to me these
things called FPARRAY structures. I comment a few of the malloc and
memcpy and the function is able to run a few times before crashing. i
am not exactly sure whats going


What are those pointers that you initialize with
malloc+memcpy? Are they globals? If yes, then you can make
them global variables of type `FPARRAY' and initialize by
simple copying:

FPARRAY g_swap_table;
FPARRAY g_holidays
FPARRAY g_futurefrontdate;

__declspec(dllexport) double initialize(
LPFP st, LPFP h, LPFP ffd, LPFP bt, int hr, int it, int ic)
{
     g_swap_table = *st;
     g_holidays = *h;
     g_futurefrontdate = *ffd;
     ....
}

Then compiler will generate appropriate code to copy the
content of the struct.

Alex

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