pointer to pointer realloc problem

hi everyone,

i have another problem with realloc with a pointer to a pointer,

here is the code:

Code:

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typedef struct posPoolspace{
        char **posList;
        int listSize;
}posPool;

typedef struct trieCDT {
        posPool *pool;
}trieCDT;

typedef struct trieCDT *Trie;

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later in my code i did like this to realloc

Code:

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      char *plist=*(trie->pool->posList);
        plist =realloc(plist,(trie->pool->listSize+1)*sizeof(100));
        strcpy(plist+trie->pool->listSize,val);

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i get Segmentation Fault .. what am i doing worng??

Underlying assumption is that the code has been compiled with debugging on.
Did you run it through a symbolic debugger to pinpoint the source of the problem.
The posted code is missing definitions/declarations of the key variables involved.

Edit:
shouldn't
char *plist=*(trie->pool->posList);
really be
char *plist=*(Trie->pool->posList);

Sorry, i missed some codes

Code:

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typedef struct posPoolspace{
        char **posList;
        int listSize;
}posPool;

typedef struct trieCDT {
        posPool *pool;
}trieCDT;

typedef struct trieCDT *Trie;

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Also, initialization

Code:

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Trie createTrie(){
        Trie trie;
        trie = (Trie)malloc(sizeof(struct trieCDT));
        trie->pool= (posPool*)malloc(sizeof(posPool));
        trie->pool->listSize=2;
        return trie;
}

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later in my code i did like this to realloc

Code:

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main(){
      .........
      Trie trie;
        trie= createTrie();
        addTrie(trie,"2565");
}

addTrie(Trie trie,char* val){
      ..........
        .......
        char *plist=*(trie->pool->posList);
        plist =realloc(plist,(trie->pool->listSize+1)*sizeof(100));
        strcpy(plist+trie->pool->listSize,val);
      trie->pool->listSize++;
      ........
      .........
}

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the error occurs at realloc point

Quote:

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Originally Posted by prakash0104

Code:

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typedef struct posPoolspace{
        char **posList;
        int listSize;
}posPool;

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I've not seen that syntax before. Is it valid? If so, which is the typename, posPoolspace or posPool?

Shouldn't struct syntax be either

Code:

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struct posPoolspace{
        char **posList;
        int listSize;
}posPool;

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or

Code:

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typedef struct{
        char **posList;
        int listSize;
}posPoolspace;
posPoolspace posPool;

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Check the return value of realloc() to make sure it's not returning a NULL pointer.
Post the debugger output used for locating the root cause of the problem.
Perhaps post the entire code if it ain't too large.

itCbitC & R.Stiltskin thanks so much,,,
i solved the error with some changes

Code:

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        char **plist=(trie->pool->posList);
        plist =realloc(plist,(trie->pool->listSize+1)*sizeof(char*));
        if(plist==NULL)
                printf("null!!");
        *(plist+trie->pool->listSize)=malloc(100);
        strcpy(*(plist+trie->pool->listSize),val);
        trie->pool->posList=plist;

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some problems with the pointers..
BTW,
i want to ask 2 things,
1, is the nametype declaration an error as R.Stiltskin said?
2. i read the realloc may move the memory block to a new location is that a big memory issue,, my program has to handle a large data ... i ma bit confused whether to use it or not..

Quote:

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Originally Posted by R.Stiltskin

I've not seen that syntax before. Is it valid? If so, which is the typename, posPoolspace or posPool?

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Yes, it is valid and quite commonly used. The name of the type is struct posPoolspace, while the alias of the type is posPool. No objects of the type are created at this point.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by prakash0104

1, is the nametype declaration an error as R.Stiltskin said?

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No, it is not an error.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by prakash0104

2. i read the realloc may move the memory block to a new location is that a big memory issue,, my program has to handle a large data ... i ma bit confused whether to use it or not..

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How large is large? Take into account that you are allocating an array of pointers so the size of each element is relatively small.

thanks for the reply,
the size is around 1 million...

Quote:

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Originally Posted by prakash0104

BTW,
i want to ask 2 things,
1, is the nametype declaration an error as R.Stiltskin said?

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no it's not as laserlight as already noted.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by prakash0104

2. i read the realloc may move the memory block to a new location is that a big memory issue,, my program has to handle a large data ... i ma bit confused whether to use it or not..

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you will run into issues only if memory is fragmented in which case the OS won't be able to satisfy the request and return a NULL pointer; only other option to not using it is to allocate a large block statically.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by prakash0104

thanks for the reply,
the size is around 1 million...

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How many instances of plist does that correspond to?

there are about 500,000 for the plist,

here is the whole code, at first i programmed with static array ,, then i wanted to change it to dynamic,,, this is why i got the error,,

i still get error

pleaseeeeeeee,, help me find it


the program basically creates trie and adds data to it.

In the main function i have careated 2 tries . First, create first trie , add elements then destroy it , then the second trie. The problem is the second time the trie is created , data added and destroyed i have problem... how did the two instances of trie get tangled?

Code:

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#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>


typedef int Value;
typedef struct trieCDT *Trie;

typedef struct posPoolspace{
        char **posList;
        int listSize;
}posPool;

typedef struct trieCDT {
        posPool *pool;
}trieCDT;

Trie createTrie(){
        Trie trie;
        trie = malloc(sizeof(struct trieCDT));
        trie->pool= malloc(sizeof(struct posPoolspace));
        trie->pool->listSize=2;
        return trie;
}

void addTrie(Trie trie, char *keys,char *val){
       
        Value value=0;
       
        if(trie == NULL){
                trie= createTrie();
        }

        char **plist=(trie->pool->posList);
        plist =realloc(plist,(trie->pool->listSize+1)*sizeof(char*));
        if(plist==NULL){
                printf("Error realloc couldn't allocate heap space!!");
                exit(0);
        }
        *(plist+trie->pool->listSize)=malloc(200);
        strcpy(*(plist+trie->pool->listSize),val);
        trie->pool->posList=plist;

        value=trie->pool->listSize;
        trie->pool->listSize++;
}

void destroyTrie(Trie trie){

        posPool *pool =trie->pool;
        int i=0;
        char **plist=(trie->pool->posList);
        for(i=0;i<pool->listSize;i++){
                free(plist[i]);
        }
        free(trie->pool->posList);
        free(trie->pool);
        free(trie);
}

main(){

        //Create First Trie
        Trie trie;
        trie = createTrie();
               
        addTrie(trie, "abf", "56");
        addTrie(trie, "abcde", "56");
        addTrie(trie, "prameshh", "26");
        addTrie(trie, "pramesh", "15");
       
        destroyTrie(trie);

        //Create Second Trie
       
        Trie trie2;
        trie2 = createTrie();
       
       
        addTrie(trie2, "abf", "56");
        addTrie(trie2, "abcde", "56");
        addTrie(trie2, "prameshh", "26");
        addTrie(trie2, "pramesh", "15");

        destroyTrie(trie2);
       
}

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error

*** glibc detected *** ./trie: free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7f593a0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7e6d454]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x96)[0xb7e6f4b6]
./trie[0x80488ab]
./trie[0x8048b91]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5)[0xb7e14685]
./trie[0x80484a1]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 7215635 /home/praka

you should keep in mind that when using free() function, you should pass the base address of the dynamic memory allocated.

for example.

Code:

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#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>

int main()
{
  char *a;
  a=malloc(10);
  a+=5;        //moving 
  free(a);      //this will cause an error as a does not point at base address of a.
  return 0;      //this will never be executed.
}

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OP:

Code:

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[c_d@localhost c scratchpad]$ ./a.out
*** glibc detected *** ./a.out: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0834e00d ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x48b3a4]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x96)[0x48d356]
./a.out[0x8048423]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5)[0x4326e5]
./a.out[0x8048361]
======= Memory map: ========
00110000-00111000 r-xp 00110000 00:00 0          [vdso]
003f7000-00417000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 805385327  /lib/ld-2.9.so
00418000-00419000 r--p 00020000 08:02 805385327  /lib/ld-2.9.so
00419000-0041a000 rw-p 00021000 08:02 805385327  /lib/ld-2.9.so
0041c000-0058a000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 808903508  /lib/libc-2.9.so
0058a000-0058c000 r--p 0016e000 08:02 808903508  /lib/libc-2.9.so
0058c000-0058d000 rw-p 00170000 08:02 808903508  /lib/libc-2.9.so
0058d000-00590000 rw-p 0058d000 00:00 0
00a6c000-00a79000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 808904130  /lib/libgcc_s-4.3.2-20081105.so.1
00a79000-00a7a000 rw-p 0000c000 08:02 808904130  /lib/libgcc_s-4.3.2-20081105.so.1
08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1151873    /home/c_d/workspace/c scratchpad/a.out
08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00000000 08:02 1151873    /home/c_d/workspace/c scratchpad/a.out
0834e000-0836f000 rw-p 0834e000 00:00 0          [heap]
b7e00000-b7e21000 rw-p b7e00000 00:00 0
b7e21000-b7f00000 ---p b7e21000 00:00 0
b7fda000-b7fdb000 rw-p b7fda000 00:00 0
b8001000-b8002000 rw-p b8001000 00:00 0
bfaec000-bfb01000 rw-p bffeb000 00:00 0          [stack]
Aborted
[c_d@localhost c scratchpad]$

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and now see this

Code:

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#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>

int main()
{
  char *a;
  a=malloc(10);
  a+=5;            //moving  address
  a-=5;            //go back to base address 
  free(a);
  printf("freed");     
  return 0;     
}

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OP:

Code:

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[c_d@localhost c scratchpad]$ gcc temp4.c
[c_d@localhost c scratchpad]$ ./a.out
freed[c_d@localhost c scratchpad]$

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I am not sure if that is the problem... as you can see the tries in the main() function are created and destroyed twice,,, the first destroy doesn't produce error just the second one(last line of code in the program) produces error,,, so i am thinking i have some problems with pointers... please give me some directions~~~

Compile source code with the "-g" option.
Run executable on the command line.
Pass the corefile and objfile to gdb.
Post output of the gdb run here.

This is probably not what you want to end up with, but changing the initial value of i in the for loop will stop it from crashing.

Code:

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void destroyTrie(Trie trie){

        posPool *pool =trie->pool;
        int i=0;
        char **plist=(trie->pool->posList);
        for(i=2;;i<pool->listSize;i++){    // here
                free(plist[i]);
        }
        free(trie->pool->posList);
        free(trie->pool);
        free(trie);
}

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You are crashing because in addTrie() you begin allocating posList memory at *(posList+2) but in destroyTrie() you are freeing beginning at *posList.