Thread: std::unique_ptr going out of scope causes access violation?

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    std::unique_ptr going out of scope causes access violation?

    I've been trying to make a plugin for Assimp for a while now, and for the most part, it works until the end of the function, which by then an exception is thrown about the std::unique_ptr variable I used. I compared its use to other plugins and I'm... baffled. It seems to be okay, I thought?

    My apparently faulty std::unique_ptr: assimp/ISM2Loader.cpp at master * NebuHiiEjamu/assimp * GitHub

    Working code with unique_ptr by someone else: assimp/ASELoader.cpp at master * NebuHiiEjamu/assimp * GitHub

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    Presumably the pointer that pIoHander->Open() returns should not be deleted, so a unique_ptr doesn't apply here.
    If you were just using a regular pointer would you call delete on it at the end of the function? I suspect not.
    E.g., in C we don't free a FILE* at the end of a function.
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    Hmm... I'll give it a try with a regular pointer. Not sure how ASELoader uses it differently though... Maybe I'm supposed to close it

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    I didn't look at the other code last time. Now that I look, I wonder if perhaps that code is also making a mistake and just getting "lucky" (or not, depeding on how you look at it).


    I would read up on exactly how those classes (IOHandler and IOStream) are supposed to be used. You probably do have to close it.
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    That's certainly awkward, but yeah I'll look. Thanks

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    Just try opening with:
    Code:
    IOStream *io = pIOHandler->Open(pFile.c_str(), "rb");
    and closing it with
    Code:
    pIOHandler->Close(io);
    Have you tried running the other code? Does it seem to run properly?

    EDIT:
    I looked at the documentation, and it seems like your original code should probably have worked. I don't know what's going on.

    Assimp: Assimp::IOSystem Class Reference

    Assimp: Assimp::IOStream Class Reference
    Last edited by john.c; 05-15-2018 at 04:44 PM.
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