I had to spend a while searching C++ forums until I understood what you
meant. Thank you for the "pointer".
Just for completeness in case anyone gets this post as a Google result:
char *data = new char(25); // pointer to character initialized with 25
char *data = new char[25]; // pointer to character array of length 25
As I mentioned, I'm relatively "new" to C++. This wasn't an MPI problem at
all.
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Brian Budge <brian.bu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You appear to be using new and delete[] together. Instead you should
> be using new[] and delete[] and new and delete together.
>
> Brian
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Corey Allen
> <corey.al...@cajkhenderson.com> wrote:
> > I have done a search on this and I haven't found an explanation. I am
> not a
> > C/C++ nor MPI expert. I am getting a strange error when I use the C++ new
> > keyword to allocate memory and then call a file read on OpenMPI. (Tech
> > detail: 4-core Intel running Ubuntu 64-bit and OpenMPI 1.4.5. Everything
> is
> > local. Total processes is 5.)
> >
> > In the source code you can see three different approaches to allocating
> the
> > memory for the char array where the file's contents will go. With the
> > C-style and MPI Alloc choices, there is no error even with buffer sizes
> in
> > the MB range. However, if I use the C++ new keyword, I get an error for
> any
> > read larger than 24 bytes.
> >
> > As I say, I'm not a C/C++ expert, but if I'm writing C++ code I was under
> > the impression it was wise to use the C++ new approach rather than
> malloc.
> > Am I missing something in getting this to work with MPI?
> >
> > Error (the important bit):
> >
> > *** glibc detected *** MPIIO_Test: free(): invalid next size (fast):
> > 0x00000000015524e0 ***
> >
> > Code:
> >
> > int main(int argc, char* argv[]){
> > int my_rank;
> > MPI_Status status ;
> > int errorCode;
> > MPI_File _filehandle;
> >
> > MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);
> > MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &my_rank);
> >
> > // Open File
> > errorCode = MPI_File_open(MPI_COMM_WORLD, "TEST1A", MPI_MODE_RDONLY,
> > MPI_INFO_NULL, &_filehandle);
> >
> > if (errorCode != 0)
> > {
> > int errorStringLen;
> > char *errorString = (char*) malloc(MPI_MAX_ERROR_STRING);
> >
> > // Get MPI file I/O error string and print it
> > MPI_Error_string(errorCode, errorString, &errorStringLen);
> >
> > printf("MPI Error opening Data File: %s \n", errorString);
> >
> > free(errorString);
> > }
> >
> > // Works with new at 24, fails at 25
> > int dataLength = 25, numBytesRead;
> > char *data = NULL;
> > // data = (char*) malloc(dataLength);
> > data = new char(dataLength);
> > // MPI_Alloc_mem(dataLength, MPI_INFO_NULL, &data);
> >
> > // File I/O
> > errorCode = MPI_File_read_at(_filehandle, my_rank*dataLength, data,
> > dataLength, MPI_CHAR, &status);
> > MPI_Get_count(&status, MPI_CHAR, &numBytesRead);
> > printf("Rank: %d Start: %d Expected: %d Read: %d \n", my_rank,
> > my_rank*dataLength, dataLength, numBytesRead);
> >
> > if (errorCode != 0)
> > {
> > int errorStringLen;
> > char *errorString = (char*) malloc(MPI_MAX_ERROR_STRING);
> >
> > // Get MPI file I/O error string and print it
> > MPI_Error_string(errorCode, errorString, &errorStringLen);
> >
> > printf("MPI Error reading from Data File: %s \n", errorString);
> >
> > free(errorString);
> > }
> >
> > // Free memory
> > // free(data);
> > delete[] data;
> > // MPI_Free_mem(data);
> >
> > // Close file
> > MPI_File_close(&_filehandle);
> >
> > MPI_Finalize();
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> >
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