Thread: Weird Problem With Pointer

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    Weird Problem With Pointer

    Hey i have a program and i overloaded the + operator and for this one set of numbers -888+-112 i get the wrong number, i ran GDB and this is what i get maybe someone can see why c is getting set to the weird number of 134489 when temp is showing its 0.

    Code:
    538             if(count == c.numDigits)
    (gdb) print count
    $11 = 3
    (gdb) print c.numDigits
    $12 = 3
    (gdb) 
    $13 = 3
    (gdb) n
    541                 temp = c.digits;
    (gdb) print temp
    $14 = (int *) 0xb7f1221f
    (gdb) print *temp
    $15 = -273227
    (gdb) print c
    $16 = (BigInt &) @0xbfe13498: {digits = 0x80502a0, numDigits = 3, 
      positive = false}
    (gdb) print c.digits[2]
    $17 = 0
    (gdb) print c.digits[1]
    $18 = 0
    (gdb) print c.digits[0]
    $19 = 0
    (gdb) 
    $20 = 0
    (gdb) n
    544                 c.numDigits++;
    (gdb) print *temp
    $21 = 0
    (gdb) n
    547                 c.digits = new int [c.numDigits];
    (gdb) n
    550                 for(i = 1; i<=c.numDigits; i++)
    (gdb) print c
    $22 = (BigInt &) @0xbfe13498: {digits = 0x8050008, numDigits = 4, 
      positive = false}
    (gdb) n
    552                     c.digits[c.numDigits-i] = temp[c.numDigits-i];
    (gdb) 
    550                 for(i = 1; i<=c.numDigits; i++)
    (gdb) print c.digits[3]
    $23 = 134489

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    >c.digits[c.numDigits-i] = temp[c.numDigits-i];
    You might try printing temp[3], temp[2], temp[1], and temp[0]. I would expect temp[0] would be equal to 0, because *temp is 0.

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    what do u mean? i temp is equal to 0 but yet c.digits[3] is 134489 for some reason. I thought i could get rid of that by making everything equal to 0 in c.digits.

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    >i temp is equal to 0
    It looks like temp is actually an array consisting of numDigits elements though, because I see this:
    Code:
    temp[c.numDigits-i]
    And if you print *temp, I think this is equivalent to temp[0], at least that's true in C++. It's hard to decipher your debug output, but it looks like you only print *temp (or temp[0]), so maybe temp[1] thru temp[3] contain something besides 0.

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