Thread: Pointer points to different address after array initialisation

Hi all,

I have a weird problem when dealing with pointers and arrays. In particular, I have the following code:

Code:

#define OFFSET 0xC0000000
#define VRT_ADD 0xC1628340
#define PHYS_ADD (VRT_ADD - OFFSET)

uint8_t *Pointer_A = (uint8_t*)PHYS_ADD;
printk("Pointer_A is: 0x%X\n", Pointer_A);
uint8_t i=0;
uint8_t Array_A[15];

for (i=0; i<=15; i++)
{
	Array_A[i]=0;
}

printk("Pointer_A is: 0x%X\n", Pointer_A);

After the filling of Array_A with zeros, Pointer_A points to 0x1628300, i.e. to an address which locates 64 bytes lower in memory compared to the one originally pointing to. This was observed by looking at the printks before and after the array filling:

Code:

Pointer_A is: 0x1628340
Pointer_A is: 0x1628300

If that helps, gcc version is 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu9)

Can anyone guess what is going wrong? Any help will be much appreciated!

Code:

for (i=0; i<=15; i++)

Count carefully. how many times is it looped.
and you're hacking kernel?

Originally Posted by limp

Hi all,

Code:

uint8_t Array_A[15];

for (i=0; i<=15; i++)
{
	Array_A[i]=0;
}

I suggest NOT overwriting your own memory.
As in Array_A[15] is NOT part of the array.

Tim S.

Use

Code:

for (i=0; i<15; i++)

Originally Posted by stahta01

I suggest NOT overwriting your own memory.
As in Array_A[15] is NOT part of the array.

What a silly mistake! That (of course) solved the problem.

Thanks for that mate!