Lot of questions.

**matsp** · 01-05-2009

Originally Posted by Ryan0773

For example, what do you mean by "lose hold of" the pointer?

Typically something like this:

Code:

int *p = new int(42);
...  // no line doing "delete p" here... 
p = new int(17);

The red line looses the pointer you got back in the blue line - so the memory you got back from the blue line can not be freed, because you no longer hold a pointer to it.

[The same would happen if p is assigned 0, or &x, or any other change of the value of p].

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Mats

**Ryan0773** · 01-05-2009

But is my code correct now?

Code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int i(25 + 4);
    int x(4);
    int *p;
    p = &i;
    cout<< *p <<"\n";
    cout<< *p <<"\n";
    delete p;
    p = new int(x);
    cout<< *p <<"\n";
    delete p;
    p = 0;
    cin.get();
}

This is the code that i had finished before, i forgot to take out the p = &x before so that was a mistake. I made p = 0 as a precaution.

**matsp** · 01-05-2009

Originally Posted by Ryan0773

But is my code correct now?

Code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int i(25 + 4);
    int x(4);
    int *p;
    p = &i;
    cout<< *p <<"\n";
    cout<< *p <<"\n";
    delete p;
    p = new int(x);
    cout<< *p <<"\n";
    delete p;
    p = 0;
    cin.get();
}

This is the code that i had finished before, i forgot to take out the p = &x before so that was a mistake. I made p = 0 as a precaution.

The red line should not be there, as p is not pointing t memory from "new", but a local variable in your function.

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Mats

**Ryan0773** · 01-05-2009

Originally Posted by matsp

The red line should not be there, as p is not pointing t memory from "new", but a local variable in your function.

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Mats

srry, forgot to fix that should be:

Code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int i(25 + 4);
    int x(4);
    int *p;
    p = &i;
    cout<< *p <<"\n";
    cout<< *p <<"\n";
    p = new int(x);
    cout<< *p <<"\n";
    delete p;
    p = 0;
    cin.get();
}

**matsp** · 01-05-2009

Yes, that is good.

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Mats

**whiteflags** · 01-05-2009

Originally Posted by Elkvis

he's a noob... try to cut him a bit of slack. the idea was to GUIDE him in the right direction so that he would come up with the code that you wrote on his own. Now you just handed it to him and he learns nothing.

Don't give me that crap. There is no point in banging your head against a wall forever. When several people have chimed in about an issue and the poster still doesn't get it, you need to make a judgment call.

Originally Posted by Ryan0773

If you had read the other threads you would have noticed that laserlight had corrected me on the p = &x. I added the p = 0 because the tutorials said that making it a null pointer was a good idea. When i reposted the final code i had forgotten to take out the p = &x which i pointed out in my response to whiteflag I'm sorry, is almost completely my fault. I agree that i am a noob and that i sometimes have no idea what the heck im, or what anyone else is talking about. For example, what do you mean by "lose hold of" the pointer?

I didn't mean to be short with you, you probably read to much into it.

matsp's post should be pretty clear. The part you are confused about is about how new returns the value you need to follow with delete. If you reassign the pointer before that you "lose hold of" the pointer. Anyway, I think your level of understanding is fine, but if it's still really confusing then just watch Binky. I think someone posted it before now but a second recommendation never hurt.

**Ryan0773** · 01-05-2009

Originally Posted by matsp

Yes, that is good.

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Mats

ok thanks, I'm really sorry i got ticked at you, i thought that i ahd fixed the problems but i overlooked them, hehe,twice. Anyways thanks for the help!!!

Originally Posted by whiteflags

Don't give me that crap. There is no point in banging your head against a wall forever. When several people have chimed in about an issue and the poster still doesn't get it, you need to make a judgment call.

I agree with you 100%, only problem is, you chimed up the wall and passed me the rope, but i havent learned how to climb yet (metaphores are awesome(not sure if metaphore is the right word...))

Originally Posted by whiteflags

matsp's post should be pretty clear. The part you are confused about is about how new returns the value you need to follow with delete. If you reassign the pointer before that you "lose hold of" the pointer. Anyway, I think your level of understanding is fine, but if it's still really confusing then just watch Binky. I think someone posted it before now but a second recommendation never hurt.

Someone did recommend it before, it's kindof wierd how the guy is teaching people how to use c++ with creepy clay things but what the heck, it works. I dont think i could have lost hold of a pointer in my code, from the example mats showed me, i think that can only happen if you forget to free a pointer that is associated with new using delete. Unless i accidentaly lost i in my code without realising it...

Thanks alot for being patient and sorry i got ticked off at you.

**Ryan0773** · 01-05-2009

Just one more thing. In the binky video it shows how a pointer works. but when it makes y point to the same thing as x using this:

Code:

int* x;
int* y;

x = new int;
*x = 42;
y = x;
*y = 13;

Since y is equal to 13 and it points to the same thing as x, because y was made after and the program is told that y = x makes it show x as 13 when we run the program, but what happenned to the 42? was it erased?

**Desolation** · 01-05-2009

More or less. You could represent it this way (though it is not exactly what happens):

int x = 42;
x = 13;

**Ryan0773** · 01-05-2009

Originally Posted by Desolation

More or less. You could represent it this way (though it is not exactly what happens):

int x = 42;
x = 13;

I still dont understand why we make x = 42 in the first place and i still dont know what happens to the 42

**Desolation** · 01-05-2009

It was only an example to show how y will modify the value at the address pointed by x. There's no real purpose to all of this and nothing "happens" to 42, you are really only replacing whatever was stored in the address pointed to by x. In this case, the address pointed to by x holds 42 and this value is changed to 13 through y.

**Ryan0773** · 01-05-2009

Alright, i get it, thanks!

**matsp** · 01-06-2009

Right, the values 42 and 13 are "numeric literals" or "constants" - they are just values that will be stored in the location that corresponds to the variable x, or the memory location held in x when x is a pointer (and y).

Also, if you have an alias (two pointers pointing to the same location in memory) as you have above, then both values will change when you store something through the pointer.

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Mats

**Ryan0773** · 01-07-2009

I have been trying to loop a switch case code so that when the default is activated, it loops back to the begginning of the switch case. Unfortunately, when i tried to construct a loop that would do this it didn't work, as a matter of fact, it failed epicly. I tried to make a for while loop that when default was chosen (or when the number input was more than that of the max number of cases) it would loop back to the beginning. I also tried using a pointer and well...that didn't work.

The tutorials on looping are all about looping integers, one of them was close (do...while) but that wouldn't really help either. I want to know how i can make it loop back tot the begginning of the selection when default is activated.

**Elysia** · 01-08-2009

Solution 1:

Code:

bool flag = true;
while (!flag)
{
    switch (...)
    {
        // ...
        default:
            flag = false;
    }
}

Solution 2:

Code:

while (...)
{
    switch (...)
    {
        // ...
        default:
            continue;
    }
}

It is not at all that hard as you make it out to be. Learn how to use flowcharts and pseudo code.

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