My codes working correctly, nevertheless I get debug error
My codes are working correctly and gives the expected result, but nevertheless I receive DEBUG ERROR!
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Run time check failure #2 - stack around the variable 'isl' was corrupted (ABORT-RETRY-IGNORE)
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(Note: "isl" is a Char array, and I'm working on Visual Studio)
Moreover; When I press ignore there were no problem left, everything is OK. So If everything works fine, why an error?
Any helps appreciated, thanks in advance.
Last edited by ilerleartik; 03-17-2012 at 08:56 AM.
Your codes are not working correctly. It appears to work when not in debug mode, but you just don't see the problem. Debug mode is specifically for finding problems, so it helps catch mistakes like this that are often hard to detect in normal operation. You have stack corruption in both versions, there's probably an array overflow or some pointer bug somewhere. You would have to post your code for us to help you find it.
The reason that it isn't visible in normal mode is that the stack corruption may not trash anything that is critical to your program running, hence your program doesn't crash, it finishes up "normally". But that doesn't mean everything is okay. Stack corruption means your program is accessing memory in some invalid way. That results in undefined behavior, which is...undefined. Anything, or nothing at all, is valid.
As soon as Ive read your post and seen "memory","array","overflow" words in it. So I ve checked my array. Yes, I've seen the problem. Because my char array has 50 elements. But I put my char in a for-loop (i(1)60) ...so that's why I got this error, it seems to be fixed for now. Thanks.
What?!?! How could you possibly make such a mistake?!?! Seriously, how could you? You are #define'ing constants right? You aren't using magic numbers, are you?
Really, it's quite difficult to make such a mistake if you do something like the following. For every array you ever declare for the rest of your bloody life.
Code:#define MAX_ARRAY_SIZE 50 char my_array[MAX_ARRAY_SIZE]; for (i = 0; i < MAX_ARRAY_SIZE; i++) my_array[i]... // i can never be out of bounds
Haha no I couldn't think to #define them just as you ve done. Good idea,though
