C++ Delete array inside 2D vector - c++

Unfortunately I have to use arrays in order to use another function I have copied. Changing this function to work with vectors would be way over my head. So I wrote a function declaring me bunch of arrays in heap to be stored inside a vector.
I now have trouble freeing up that memory at the end.
void _get_X_Y_arrays(std::vector<std::vector<float> > *voronoi, std::vector<std::vector<int*> > *rtrn)
{
int numberPolygons = voronoi->size();
for (int i = 0; i < numberPolygons; i++)
{
int *x_heap = new int[((*voronoi)[i].size()) / 2];
int *y_heap = new int[((*voronoi)[i].size()) / 2];
std::vector<int> x(((*voronoi)[i].size()) / 2);
std::vector<int> y(((*voronoi)[i].size()) / 2);
unsigned j = 0;
int count = 0;
for (; j < (*voronoi)[i].size(); j += 2, count++)
{
x[count] = (int)(*voronoi)[i][j];
y[count] = (int)(*voronoi)[i][j + 1];
}
std::copy(x.begin(), x.end(), &x_heap[0]);
std::copy(y.begin(), y.end(), &y_heap[0]);
(*rtrn)[i].push_back(x_heap);
(*rtrn)[i].push_back(y_heap);
}
}
The function works well and everything acts like intended. I wrote another function to free up that memory at the end when it's no longer needed:
void _cleanup(std::vector<std::vector<int*> > *rtrn)
{
for (unsigned i = 0; i < rtrn->size(); i++)
{
for (unsigned j = 0; j < (*rtrn)[i].size(); j++)
{
delete[] rtrn[i][j][0];
delete[] rtrn[i][j][1];
}
}
}
Unfortunately this causes the program to crash. I don't really know where the error is. It feels like there might be an vector out of scope ..?
Just by looking at it and playing with it I'm not able to solve this. What am I doing wrong?

I think you have 3 dimensions array [nbpolygons][2][nbpoints]
Your code :
delete[] rtrn[i][j][0]; // delete rtrn[i][j] index 0
delete[] rtrn[i][j][1]; // delete rtrn[i][j] (the same array) index 1
// => crash
rtrn[i].size() always egal 2
Do :
void _cleanup(std::vector<std::vector<int*> >& rtrn)
{
for (unsigned i = 0; i < rtrn.size(); i++)
{
for (unsigned j = 0; j < rtrn[i].size(); j++)
{
delete[] rtrn[i][j];
}
}
}
or
void _cleanup(std::vector<std::vector<int*> >& rtrn)
{
for (unsigned i = 0; i < rtrn.size(); i++)
{
delete[] rtrn[i][0];
delete[] rtrn[i][1];
}
}

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c++ dynamic memory allocation - matrix multiplication

I am trying to do a large matrix multiplication, e.g. 1000x1000. Unfortunately, it only works for very small matrices. For the big ones, the program just turns on and that's all - no results. Here's the code:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
int matrix_1_row;
int matrix_1_column;
matrix_1_row = 10;
matrix_1_column = 10;
int** array_1 = new int* [matrix_1_row];
// dynamically allocate memory of size matrix_1_column for each row
for (int i = 0; i < matrix_1_row; i++)
{
array_1[i] = new int[matrix_1_column];
}
// assign values to allocated memory
for (int i = 0; i < matrix_1_row; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < matrix_1_column; j++)
{
array_1[i][j] = 3;
}
}
int matrix_2_row;
int matrix_2_column;
matrix_2_row = 10;
matrix_2_column = 10;
// dynamically create array of pointers of size matrix_2_row
int** array_2 = new int* [matrix_2_row];
// dynamically allocate memory of size matrix_2_column for each row
for (int i = 0; i < matrix_2_row; i++)
{
array_2[i] = new int[matrix_2_column];
}
// assign values to allocated memory
for (int i = 0; i < matrix_2_row; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < matrix_2_column; j++)
{
array_2[i][j] = 2;
}
}
// Result
int result_row = matrix_1_row;
int result_column = matrix_2_column;
// dynamically create array of pointers of size result_row
int** array_3 = new int* [result_row];
// dynamically allocate memory of size result_column for each row
for (int i = 0; i < result_row; i++)
{
array_3[i] = new int[result_column];
}
// Matrix multiplication
for (int i = 0; i < matrix_1_row; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < matrix_2_column; j++)
{
array_3[i][j] = 0;
for (int k = 0; k < matrix_1_column; k++)
{
array_3[i][j] += array_1[i][k] * array_2[k][j];
}
}
}
//RESULTS
for (int i = 0; i < result_row; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < result_column; j++)
{
std::cout << array_3[i][j] << "\t";
}
}
// deallocate memory using delete[] operator 1st matrix
for (int i = 0; i < matrix_1_row; i++)
{
delete[] array_1[i];
}
delete[] array_1;
// deallocate memory using delete[] operator 2nd matrix
for (int i = 0; i < matrix_2_row; i++)
{
delete[] array_2[i];
}
delete[] array_2;
// deallocate memory using delete[] operator result
for (int i = 0; i < result_row; i++)
{
delete[] array_3[i];
}
delete[] array_3;
return 0;
}
Anyone have an idea how to fix it? At what point did I go wrong? I used pointers, dynamic memory allocation.
Instead of working with arrays directly named as matrix, try something simple and scalable, then optimize. Something like this:
class matrix
{
private:
// sub-matrices
std::shared_ptr<matrix> c11;
std::shared_ptr<matrix> c12;
std::shared_ptr<matrix> c21;
std::shared_ptr<matrix> c22;
// properties
const int n;
const int depth;
const int maxDepth;
// this should be shared-ptr too. Too lazy.
int data[16]; // lowest level matrix = 4x4 without sub matrix
// multiplication memory
std::shared_ptr<std::vector<matrix>> m;
public:
matrix(const int nP=4,const int depthP=0,const int maxDepthP=1):
n(nP),depth(depthP),maxDepth(maxDepthP)
{
if(depth<maxDepth)
{
// allocate c11,c22,c21,c22
// allocate m1,m2,m3,...m7
}
}
// matrix-matrix multiplication
matrix operator * (const matrix & mat)
{
// allocate result
// multiply
if(depth!=maxDepth)
{
// Strassen's multiplication algorithm
*m[0] = (*c11 + *c22) * (*mat.c11 + *mat.c22);
...
*m[6] = (*c12 - *c22) * (*mat.c21 + *mat.c22);
*c11 = *m[0] + *m[3] - *m[4] + *m[6];
..
*c22 = ..
}
else
{
// innermost submatrices (4x4) multiplied normally
result.data[0] = data[0]*mat.data[0] + ....
...
result.data[15]= ...
}
return result;
}
// matrix-matrix adder
matrix operator + (const matrix & mat)
{
// allocate result
// add
if(depth!=maxDepth)
{
*result.c11 = *c11 + *mat.c11;
*result.c12 = *c12 + *mat.c12;
*result.c21 = *c21 + *mat.c21;
*result.c22 = *c22 + *mat.c22;
}
else
{
// innermost matrix
result.data[0] = ...
}
return result;
}
};
This way, it costs less time-complexity and still looks simple to read. After it works, you can use single-block of matrix array inside of class to optimize for more speed, preferably only allocating once at root matrix and use
std::span
for access from submatrices for newer C++ versions. It is even parallelizable easily as each matrix can distribute its work to at least 4 threads and they can to 16 threads, 64 threads, etc. But of course too many threads are just as bad as too many allocations and should be optimized in a better way.

C++ parameterized constructor makes code to stop working when large input's are passed

void initialize(int arr[], int size[], int n)
{
int i;
for(i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
arr[i] = i;
size[i] = 1;
}
}
class hell
{
public:
int edges;
int vertices;
pair<int , pair<int,int>> p[100000];
int disjoint_set[10000];
int cc_size[10000]; // size of connected components
hell(int e, int v)
{
edges = e;
vertices = v;
initialize(disjoint_set, cc_size, vertices);
}
};
In the following class when I create an object using vertices=100000 and edges=100000, the code stops working. But when we remove the initialize(disjoint_set, cc_size, vertices) it starts working. I don't have any clue to such behavior. Please guide me.
Arrays in C++ are zero indexed, which means that valid index is in [0..n[ range. Your code does it wrong:
for(i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
arr[i] = i;
size[i] = 1;
}
it should be:
for(i = 0; i < n; i++) {
arr[i] = i + 1;
size[i] = 1 + 1;
}
or better use algo std::iota() and std::fill():
std::iota( arr, arr + n, 1 );
std::fill( size, size + n, 1 );
and you better use std::vector, which will adjust its size properly, rather than have huge array.

Porting code from C++ to C. How do I deal with this vector and range based loop

I am trying to port to C. Since there's no vectors in C, I used a normal array, but I don't know how I'm going to deal with the ranged based loop on line 18.
for (int u : d[i]) if (dfs(rev[u])) {
par[i] = u;
rev[u] = i;
return true;
}
Complete code:
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;
const int Maxn = 200;
vector<int> d[Maxn];
int par[Maxn];
int rev[Maxn];
bool vs[Maxn];
bool dfs(int i) {
if (i < 0) return true;
if (vs[i]) return false;
vs[i] = true;
for (int u : d[i]) if (dfs(rev[u])) {
par[i] = u;
rev[u] = i;
return true;
}
return false;
}
int main() {
ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
int n;
cin >> n;
string s;
getline(cin, s);
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
getline(cin, s);
stringstream ss(s);
vector<int> mk(n, 1);
mk[i] = 0;
int x;
while (ss >> x)
mk[x] = 0;
for (int x = 0; x < n; x++)
if (mk[x])
d[i].push_back(x);
}
memset(par, -1, sizeof par);
memset(rev, -1, sizeof rev);
for (bool ok = true; ok; ) {
ok = false;
memset(vs, 0, sizeof vs);
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
if (par[i] < 0) {
ok |= dfs(i);
}
}
int ans = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
ans += (par[i] < 0);
cout << ans;
}
In C there is no std::vector, the closes would be an array.
int array[] = [ 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 ];
for(int i = 0; i < sizeof array / sizeof *array; ++i)
printf("array[%d] = %d\n", i, array[i]);
If you get a pointer of an array of int, the you have to pass the length of
the array as well, as sizeof arr / sizeof *arr works with arrays only.
void foo(in *array, size_t len)
{
for(int i = 0; i < len; ++i)
printf("array[%d] = %d\n", i, array[i]);
}
void bar(void)
{
int array[] = [ 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 ];
foo(array, sizeof array / sizeof *array);
}
edit 2
I noticed that you've posted your code and that d is declared as vector<int> d[Maxn];. Also taking in consideration your recent comment
So this is an array of vectors. Do you have any idea how i can work with arrays taking that in consideration in C
There a couple of ways to convert the array of vectors in C. But this depends
on your needs. If for example you know that all vectors are going to have the
same size (for example int vectsize = 100), then you can create a two
dimensional array with the sizes1
int Maxn = 200;
int vectsize = 100;
int d[Maxn][vectsize];
memset(d, 0, sizeof d); // initialize all elements with 0
// filling the data
for(int i = 0; i < Maxn; ++i)
{
for(j = 0; j < vectsize; ++j)
d[i][j] = get_value_for(i, j);
}
The the range-loop is very easy:
// assuming that the variables i, par, rev are valid, i between 0 and Maxn-1
for(int j = 0; j < vectsize; ++j)
{
int u = d[i][j];
if (dfs(rev[u])) {
par[i] = u;
rev[u] = i;
return true;
}
}
It gets a little more complicated if you only know one dimension, for example
every vector in the array could have a different size.
d[0].size() --> 10
d[1].size() --> 1
d[2].size() --> 3
...
The you can create an array of pointers to int, but you would have to keep
another array of ints with the length for every d[i] vector.
int Maxn = 200;
int *d[Maxn]; // pointer to int[Maxn] arrays
int vectsize[Maxn];
// initializing with 0
memset(d, 0, sizeof d);
memset(vectsize, 0, sizeof vectsize);
// filling the data
for(int i = 0; i < Maxn; ++i)
{
vectsize[i] = get_length_for(i);
d[i] = malloc(vectsize[i] * sizeof *d[i]);
if(d[i] == NULL)
// error handling
for(j = 0; j < vectsize[i]; ++j)
d[i][j] = get_value_for(i, j);
}
Note that I'm using here (and in the last example) get_length_for() and get_value_for() as placeholders2.
Now your range-base loop would look like this:
// assuming that the variables i, par, rev are valid, i between 0 and Maxn-1
for(int j = 0; j < vectsize[i]; ++j)
{
int u = d[i][j];
if (dfs(rev[u])) {
par[i] = u;
rev[u] = i;
return true;
}
}
At some point however you would have to free the memory:
for(int i = 0; i < Maxn; ++i)
free(d[i]);
The third option would be using a double pointer and using malloc/realloc
to allocate the memory. This is the more general solution, but you have to
take care of memory management and that can be sometimes difficult, especially when you
haven't programmed in C to much. But also in case where both dimension are unknown, this is the way to go:
int Maxn = get_some_maxn_value();
int **d, *vectsize;
d = malloc(Maxn * sizeof *d);
if(d == NULL)
// error handling
vectsize = malloc(Maxn * sizeof *vectsize);
if(vectsize == NULL)
// error handling,
// if you exit the function, don't forget
// to do free(d) first as part of the
// error handling
// initialize all elements with 0
memset(d, 0, Maxn * sizeof *d);
memset(vectsize, 0, Maxn * sizeof *vectsize);
// filling the data (the same as above)
for(int i = 0; i < Maxn; ++i)
{
vectsize[i] = get_length_for(i);
d[i] = malloc(vectsize[i] * sizeof *d[i]);
if(d[i] == NULL)
// error handling
for(j = 0; j < vectsize[i]; ++j)
d[i][j] = get_value_for(i, j);
}
In this case the range-loop would look exactly as for the array of pointers.
Freeing the memory is a little bit different though:
for(int i = 0; i < Maxn; ++i)
free(d[i]);
free(d);
free(vectsize);
Like I said earlier, which one of these three methods to use depends on the way
the original C++ code fills the values, how long the vectors are, etc. Judging
form the C++ code you posted, you read an integer from the user and store it
in n. Then you read more values from the user and push then in the vector
d[i] for all i between 0 and Maxn-1. It seems that all vectors have at
most length n, but because of
if (mk[x])
d[i].push_back(x);
they also could have less than n elements. That's why I think that the third
solution is preferable here.
Annotations
1Prior to C99, Variable Length Arrays (VLA) were not supported, so if you had the
dimension in a variable, you had to use malloc to allocate enough memory.
C99 supports VLAs, but I'm not quite sure how well supported they are and/or
whether your compiler supports them.
I personally don't use them in my code at all, that's why I really don't know. I compiled this examples with GNU
GCC 6.4.0 (on linux) and they worked fine.
The first two options use VLAs, if your compiler doesn't support that, then
you have to use the third option.
For more information about VLAs:
malloced array VS. variable-length-array
What's the difference between a VLA and dynamic memory allocation via malloc?
Variable length array
GCC manual: 6.19 Arrays of Variable Length (in case you ise GCC)
2How you really get this values depends on the original C++ code.
So far I've only looked very briefly over your C++ code. Using the values from
my example get_length_for(0) would return 10, get_length_for(1) would return 1,
get_length_for(2) would return 3, etc.
Assuming d[i] is a vector, this is a similar loop:
for (size_t s = 0; s < d[i].size(); s++)
{
int u = d[i][s];
if (dfs(rev[u]))
{
par[i] = u;
rev[u] = i;
return true;
}
}

How to delete completely 2D pointer array

I have a 2D pointer matrix in C++ such as,
typedef unsigned char U8;
typedef unsigned int U32;
int M=10;
int m_L=8;
U8** A = new U8*[M];
for (U32 i = 0; i < M; ++i)
{
A[i] = new U8[m_L];
}
After setting value in A0, I will write a function which decide delete or not delete M-2 rows in A, depends on the random number is 0 or 1
void delete_or_not(U8** A,int M)
{
if (rand_num==1){
for (U32 index = M-2; index < M; ++index){
delete[] A[index];
}
}
}
Now, in main function (which contains A memory allocation), I want to free/delete the memory which allocated for A. I can use the code
//free A matrix
for (U32 i = 0; i < M; ++i)
{
if (i < m_L)
{
delete[] A[i];
A[i] = NULL;
}
}
delete[] A;
A = NULL;
My problem is that, I don't know that A is delete (M-2) rows or not. Hence, above code does clearly delete all memory, if my random number is 0. That means, above code only delete correct memory if M-2 rows is deleted in the delete_or_not function. How can delete the A matrix perfectly. Thanks
Finaly, my full code is
typedef unsigned char U8;
typedef unsigned int U32;
int M=10;
int m_L=8;
U8** A = new U8*[M];
for (U32 i = 0; i < M; ++i)
{
A[i] = new U8[m_L];
}
delete_or_not(A,M);
//free A matrix
//Way 1: will miss M-2 row if delete_or_not function did not delete 2 rows.
// It only correct if rand_num=1
for (U32 i = 0; i < M; ++i)
{
if (i < m_L)
{
delete[] A[i];
A[i] = NULL;
}
}
delete[] A;
A = NULL;
//Way 2- It will correct if the size of A is M by M
for (U32 i = 0; i < M; ++i)
{
delete[] A[i];
A[i] = NULL;
}
delete[] A;
A = NULL;
Just set deleted elements to NULL and everything will work fine:
void delete_or_not(U8** A,int M)
{
if (rand_num==1){
for (U32 index = M-2; index < M; ++index){
delete[] A[index];
A[index] = NULL;
}
}
}
Also, this is not very useful:
for (U32 i = 0; i < M; ++i)
{
if (i < m_L)
{
delete[] A[i];
A[i] = NULL;
}
}
There's no point advancing i from 0 to M if you then only "do work" when i is smaller then m_L.
But really, in C++ you should probably use std::vector<std::vector<U8>> instead and simply erase or pop_back to get rid of "rows".
In void delete_or_notyou shall set deleted elements to NULL as already proposed by another answer by Amit.
Then Way 2 of your posted code is correct in both cases.
Calling delete on a NULL is perfectly legal and doesn't hurt at all.
Way 1 is not working and should be removed.
In summary:
void delete_or_not(U8** A,int M)
{
if (rand_num==1){
for (U32 index = M-2; index < M; ++index){
delete[] A[index];
A[index] = NULL; // Add this to your code
}
}
}
// In main somewhere...
// free A
for (U32 i = 0; i < M; ++i)
{
delete[] A[i]; // Not a problem if the element has already been deleted
// because the pointer will be NULL and calling
// delete with NULL is OK (and changes nothing)
A[i] = NULL;
}
delete[] A;
A = NULL;

Cannot access class member of a 2d array of object pointers (type***)

I am making conway's game of life. I have two classes, one for the plane of cells, and another for the cells. The cells are like a 2d linked list with 4 pointers per cell pointing to the vertical and horizontal neighbors. When trying to access any of the cell pointers to other cells, or the alive member the program crashes.
my code
//game.h
#ifndef GAME_H_
#define GAME_H_
#include <iostream>
class cell{
public:
bool alive;
cell* top;
cell* bot;
cell* lef;
cell* rig;
cell(){
alive = false;
top = bot = lef = rig = nullptr;
}
cell* link(char);
int alive_neighbors();
void link_right(cell*);
void link_down(cell*);
void refresh_cell();
};
class field{
public:
int size;
cell * origin;
bool ** new_state;
cell *** fi;
field(int a);
~field();
};
#endif
and
//game.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include "game.h"
int cell::alive_neighbors(){
int num = 0;
(this->top)?((this->top->alive)?(++num):(num)||((this->top->rig)?((this->top->rig->alive)?(num++):(num)):(num))):(num);
(this->bot)?((this->bot->alive)?(++num):(num)||((this->bot->lef)?((this->bot->lef->alive)?(num++):(num)):(num))):(num);
(this->rig)?((this->rig->alive)?(++num):(num)||((this->rig->bot)?((this->rig->bot->alive)?(num++):(num)):(num))):(num);
(this->lef)?((this->lef->alive)?(++num):(num)||((this->lef->bot)?((this->lef->bot->alive)?(num++):(num)):(num))):(num);
return num;
}
void cell::link_right(cell* linkee){
this->rig = linkee;
linkee->lef = this;
}
void cell::link_down(cell* linkee){
this->bot = linkee;
linkee->top = this;
}
field::field(int a){
size = a;
for (int i= 0; i < size; i++){
fi[i] = new cell*[size];
for (int j = 0; j < size; j++){
fi[i][j] = new cell;
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++){
for (int j = 0; j < size -1; j++){
this->fi[i][j]->link_right(this->fi[i][j+1]);
this->fi[j][i]->link_down(this->fi[j+1][i]);
}
}
origin = fi[0][0]
}
field::~field(){
for (int i = size -1; i >= 0; i--){
for (int j = size -1;j >= 0; j--){
delete fi[i][j];
}
delete fi[i];
}
}
Error:
#include "game.h"
int main(){
field game(10);
std::cout << game.origin->alive << std::endl; //compiles but crashes :(
std::cout << game.origin->rig << std::endl; //also compiles and crashes without giving adress.
std::cout << game.fi[0][0]->alive; //even directly accessing the cell compiles and crashes.
}
The problem was with game.cpp try this code
//game.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include "stackoverflow.hpp"
int cell::alive_neighbors(){
int num = 0;
(this->top)?((this->top->alive)?(++num):(num)||((this->top->rig)?((this->top->rig->alive)?(num++):(num)):(num))):(num);
(this->bot)?((this->bot->alive)?(++num):(num)||((this->bot->lef)?((this->bot->lef->alive)?(num++):(num)):(num))):(num);
(this->rig)?((this->rig->alive)?(++num):(num)||((this->rig->bot)?((this->rig->bot->alive)?(num++):(num)):(num))):(num);
(this->lef)?((this->lef->alive)?(++num):(num)||((this->lef->bot)?((this->lef->bot->alive)?(num++):(num)):(num))):(num);
return num;
}
void cell::link_right(cell* linkee){
this->rig = linkee;
linkee->lef = this;
}
void cell::link_down(cell* linkee){
this->bot = linkee;
linkee->top = this;
}
field::field(int a){
size = a;
fi = new cell**[size];
for (int i= 0; i < size; i++){
fi[i] = new cell*[size];
for (int j = 0; j < size; j++){
fi[i][j] = new cell;
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++){
for (int j = 0; j < size -1; j++){
this->fi[i][j]->link_right(this->fi[i][j+1]);
this->fi[j][i]->link_down(this->fi[j+1][i]);
}
}
origin = fi[0][0];
}
field::~field(){
for (int i = size -1; i >= 0; i--){
for (int j = size -1;j >= 0; j--){
delete fi[i][j];
}
delete fi[i];
}
}
I do not understand why people here tend to get annoyed because the ones asking questions are not coding with the "correct" style. We all need to make mistakes and learn from them. On that note in the future when you work on another C++ project. Try using the STL containers, they will be refreshingly simple and efficient. You'll love them.
Also think of n-dimensional arrays this way. Use one * for every dimension. So an int* arr is a 1-D array and an int** arr is a 2-D array. You can switch to a cell** here since you want a 2-D array :)