My application is crashing using Do/While loop to parse table - c++

Question

I have 2 QCheckbox tables, each contains 11 elements.
I declare them as following in my class :
QCheckBox *sectionTable[10];
QCheckBox *postTable[10];
For each QCheckBox, I do this
QCheckBox* checkboxA = new QCheckBox("A");
sectionTable[0] = checkboxA;
Through my test method, I would like to return the content of each element of my QCheckbox tables.
To do so, I've done this test :
/** TEST() **/
void VGCCC::test()
{
sectionTable[0]->setText("A");
sectionTable[1]->setText("B");
sectionTable[2]->setText("C");
sectionTable[3]->setText("D");
postTable[0]->setText("E");
postTable[1]->setText("F");
postTable[2]->setText("G");
postTable[3]->setText("H");
int i=0;
do
{
m_testTextEdit->insertPlainText(sectionTable[i]->text());
std::cout << "SECTION TABLE " << sectionTable[i]->text().toStdString() << "\n" << std::endl;
i++;
}
while(!sectionTable[i]->text().isNull());
do
{
m_testTextEdit->insertPlainText(postTable[i]->text());
std::cout << "POST TABLE " << postTable[i]->text().toStdString() << "\n" << std::endl;
i++;
}
while(!postTable[i]->text().isEmpty());
}
My application is compiling, and also running. But when I call the test function, my application crash.
How can we explain this problem ?
I would like to notify that I get a result in my console. It seems my test is half working, but is crashing at the end of the 1st do/while loop, when I get out of my condition.

Answer 1

With regard to the 11 elements: QCheckBox *sectionTable[10]; defines only 10 slots (0 through 9) for elements.
int i=0;
do
{
m_testTextEdit->insertPlainText(sectionTable[i]->text());
std::cout << "SECTION TABLE " << sectionTable[i]->text().toStdString() << "\n" << std::endl;
i++;
}
while(!sectionTable[i]->text().isNull());
Has the potential to reach past ten or eleven elements. Unless the terminating condition is found earlier, there is nothing to stop sectionTable[i] from trying to read sectionTable[11] to call its text method. If it manages to survive the call to the out-of-range sectionTable[11]->text(), it will then try calling sectionTable[11]->text().isNull(). Possibly this will be survivable as well and not be NULL. In this case sectionTable[12] will be tested. This will continue until the program hits really bad memory and crashes, a null is found, or pigs become the terror of the airways we all know they truly wish to be.
Note that i is not set back to 0 after this loop, so the first postTable to be inspected in the next loop will be at the same index as the last sectionTable.
So if sectionTable[5]->text().isNull() was NULL, postTable[5] will be the first postTable indexed and inspected.
do
{
m_testTextEdit->insertPlainText(postTable[i]->text());
std::cout << "POST TABLE " << postTable[i]->text().toStdString() << "\n" << std::endl;
i++;
}
while(!postTable[i]->text().isEmpty());
This loop has the same error in the exit condition as the sectionTable loop.

Answer 2

I find out how to solve the problem. As said in the answer before (#user4581301), I didn't set back my iterator i to 0.
Also, to avoid the "out of range" crash, I put a second condition which is i<sizeof(sectionTable[i]);
This is my fonctional test function :
/** TEST() **/
void VGCCC::test()
{
int i = 0;
do
{
m_testTextEdit->insertPlainText(sectionTable[i]->text());
std::cout << "SECTION TABLE " << m_materialMap[sectionTable[i]].c_str() << "\n" << std::endl;
i++;
}
while(!sectionTable[i]->text().isNull() && i<sizeof(sectionTable[i]));
i = 0;
do
{
m_testTextEdit->insertPlainText(postTable[i]->text());
std::cout << "POST TABLE " << postTable[i]->text().toStdString() << "\n" << std::endl;
std::cout << "POST TABLE " << m_materialMap[postTable[i]].c_str() << "\n" << std::endl;
i++;
}
while(!postTable[i]->text().isEmpty() && i<sizeof(postTable[i]));
}