A problem with loops
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man, im sorry i keep making you ask me twice, i dont know where my head is at this morning. NumberOfChannels is an int. both NumberOfChannels and Outlen are set outside by the calling class, and not altered with in this class.
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VonHagNDaz wrote:
NumberOfChannels is an int.
Ok, but you still have not indicated their respective values prior to being used. Can you not just set a breakpoint on the
forandmemset()statements and look at their values in the watch window?
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VonHagNDaz wrote:
NumberOfChannels is an int.
Ok, but you still have not indicated their respective values prior to being used. Can you not just set a breakpoint on the
forandmemset()statements and look at their values in the watch window?
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there values are NumberOfChannels 4 and OutLen 2692. its just randomly that Channel = -1. Sometimes everything works out and Channel never goes to -1, and it never goes to -1 at the same iteration through the loop. It crashes either randomly, or not at all.
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there values are NumberOfChannels 4 and OutLen 2692. its just randomly that Channel = -1. Sometimes everything works out and Channel never goes to -1, and it never goes to -1 at the same iteration through the loop. It crashes either randomly, or not at all.
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VonHagNDaz wrote:
...and OutLen 2692.
So does
Outhave enough room for 2692 characters?VonHagNDaz wrote:
its just randomly that Channel = -1.
Computers never do anything at random. They do exactly what they were instructed to do.
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VonHagNDaz wrote:
...and OutLen 2692.
So does
Outhave enough room for 2692 characters?VonHagNDaz wrote:
its just randomly that Channel = -1.
Computers never do anything at random. They do exactly what they were instructed to do.
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DavidCrow wrote:
They do exactly what they were instructed to do
You have to use the good ole fashion "tool blame" to keep a small amount of sanity. Yes, it is being allocated the proper space. A coworker has suggested that it might be a memory error where something is writing to that chunk and skewing the number?
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DavidCrow wrote:
They do exactly what they were instructed to do
You have to use the good ole fashion "tool blame" to keep a small amount of sanity. Yes, it is being allocated the proper space. A coworker has suggested that it might be a memory error where something is writing to that chunk and skewing the number?
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VonHagNDaz wrote:
A coworker has suggested that it might be a memory error where something is writing to that chunk and skewing the number?
That's what I've been tring to get at for several posts now, but without having any actual numbers, could not be for sure.
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VonHagNDaz wrote:
A coworker has suggested that it might be a memory error where something is writing to that chunk and skewing the number?
That's what I've been tring to get at for several posts now, but without having any actual numbers, could not be for sure.
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is there some slick way to see whats going on? ive tried watching that address with the memory view part of the debugger, but it doesnt show where anything is writing to that address.
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is there some slick way to see whats going on? ive tried watching that address with the memory view part of the debugger, but it doesnt show where anything is writing to that address.
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Set a breakpoint on any of the statements within the
forloop. AddChannelto the watch window. Go through theforloop using F5. WatchChannelat each iteration. Hopefully you'll see it change to -1.
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Set a breakpoint on any of the statements within the
forloop. AddChannelto the watch window. Go through theforloop using F5. WatchChannelat each iteration. Hopefully you'll see it change to -1.
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I appreciate the help, and im glad you havent just gotten fed up with me, but this loop is called per channel per scanline, so its simply not possible to watch Channel on every iteration. Since this error is not repeatable in the same spot every time, im fairly sure that im just screwed. Thank you for all the suggestions.
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I appreciate the help, and im glad you havent just gotten fed up with me, but this loop is called per channel per scanline, so its simply not possible to watch Channel on every iteration. Since this error is not repeatable in the same spot every time, im fairly sure that im just screwed. Thank you for all the suggestions.
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Have you considered:
for (int Channel = 0; Channel < NumberOfChannels; Channel++)
{
if (-1 == Channel)
; // set breakpoint on this lineDat = (unsigned char\*)m\_Dither.Dat\[Channel\]; Out = (unsigned char\*)lpDithered->Data\[Channel\]; ChannelData = &(lpDthrCtrl->Data\[Channel\]); ...}
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Have you considered:
for (int Channel = 0; Channel < NumberOfChannels; Channel++)
{
if (-1 == Channel)
; // set breakpoint on this lineDat = (unsigned char\*)m\_Dither.Dat\[Channel\]; Out = (unsigned char\*)lpDithered->Data\[Channel\]; ChannelData = &(lpDthrCtrl->Data\[Channel\]); ...}
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all right! i finally got it! let me explain a little bit more about this problem. im working with my company's legacy code, and im not allowed to change it because "it works." what im supposed to be doing is writing an interface to this class. so i tracked the problem down, and it was a call to CoTaskMemAlloc(1024)... why the did they hard code this, and why cant i change it? so basically what i had to do was cut out the call to that function and manually reset all the memory calls to the proper sizes from the interface. i imagine this wasnt a problem when they were processing small images, but now they're using huge digital photo quality images, im tempted to tell my boss whats up, but then ill probably hear an ear full for working around their class that "just works." thanks for the help man.
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all right! i finally got it! let me explain a little bit more about this problem. im working with my company's legacy code, and im not allowed to change it because "it works." what im supposed to be doing is writing an interface to this class. so i tracked the problem down, and it was a call to CoTaskMemAlloc(1024)... why the did they hard code this, and why cant i change it? so basically what i had to do was cut out the call to that function and manually reset all the memory calls to the proper sizes from the interface. i imagine this wasnt a problem when they were processing small images, but now they're using huge digital photo quality images, im tempted to tell my boss whats up, but then ill probably hear an ear full for working around their class that "just works." thanks for the help man.
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So exactly how did allocating 1024 bytes, rather than some larger number, mess up what you were doing?
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So exactly how did allocating 1024 bytes, rather than some larger number, mess up what you were doing?
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it knew it was supposed to be accessing that memory, but it wasnt allocated properly, so it was overwriting into memory set aside for Channel and LengthInBytes. We (my cube mate, and i) stuck a whole bunch of _Asserts everywhere, and Channel never equaled -1, but as soon as the it set Out = (unsigned char*)lpDithered->Data[Channel]; Channel and LengthInBytes lost their value.
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VonHagNDaz wrote:
if (Channel = -1).
:wtf::omg: !!! man, it should be this :
if (Channel
**==**-1)by using
=instead of==, you're assigning it !
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Actually, it should be written thus:
if (-1 == Channel)
so if you mistakenly use
=instead of==the compiler will puke. If you get in the habit of putting the constant on the left side of the equation it'll save you many headaches. -
Actually, it should be written thus:
if (-1 == Channel)
so if you mistakenly use
=instead of==the compiler will puke. If you get in the habit of putting the constant on the left side of the equation it'll save you many headaches.yeah, i know this, but I don't like it ! lol but for beginners, (for which the chance to fall in the trap is approaching the 100%), they should take this habbit...
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