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This is a simple problem I try to solve.  I forgot how to do that.  That will probably take me a while to figure out.  I may have made a mistake in memory allocation (malloc), but I don't see it.

The problem is, inside the function, the output variable gives good result (0 and 1), and outside the function, the output variable give wrong result (print memory location instead of 1 and 0).

Here is the code, you can try to compile it and see the problem

thanks

#include <iostream.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <conio.h>


void deci2bin(int d, int size, int *b)
      {
   int i;

   for(i = 0; i < size; i++)
         {
      b[i] = 0;
      }
   b[size - 1] = d & 0x01;

    for (i = size - 2; i >= 0; i--)
          {
      d = d >> 1;
      b[i] = d & 0x01;
          }
      }


void gen01dat( long data_len, int *out_array)
      {
   long t,j;
   int y1[100];
   int b[100];
   int y2[100][8];
   int y3[800];
   int y4[800];
   out_array = (int*)malloc(800*sizeof(int));


    for (t = 0; t < data_len; t++)
          {
      out_array[t] = ceil(127*sin(0.5*t));
      }

        for (t =0;t<100;t++)
         {
      deci2bin(out_array[t],8,b);
         for (j=0;j<8;j++)
            {
         y2[t][j] = b[j];
         }
      }

   for (t=0;t<100;t++)
         {
      for (j=0;j<8;j++)
            {
         y3[8*t + j] = y2[t][j];
         }
      }

   for (t=0;t<800;t++)
         {
      out_array[t] = y3[t];
      }

   for (t=0;t<800;t++)
         {
      y4[t] = 1;
      if (out_array[t] < 0)
            {
         out_array[t] = -out_array[t];
         y4[t] = -1;
         }
      y4[t] = out_array[t] * y4[t];
      }

   for (t=0;t<800;t++)
         {
     out_array[t] = y4[t];
      }

   for(int i=0;i<20;i++)
         {
      cout<<out_array[i];
      }
      cout<<endl;

   free(out_array);
   }

void main()
      {
   long n;
   int out[20];

   gen01dat(n,out);
   for (int i=0;i<20;i++)
         {
      cout<<out[i];
      cout<<endl;
      }
   getch();
   }

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- in main(): n is not initialized when calling gen01dat()
 
- out_array is a local pointer in gen01dat() that is initialized with the address of out[] in main() but overwritten by the malloc() call. After that you have no reference to out[] within gen01dat().
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So how to solve the problem.  I forgot to initialize n.  N can be treated as a constan.  Even when I do that, I still don't have the right answer

void main()
      {
   int *out_array = (int*)malloc(100*sizeof(int));

   gen01dat(20,out_array);
   for (int i=0;i<20;i++)
         {
      cout<<out_array[i];
      cout<<endl;
      }
   getch();
   }

Actually, I solve the problem by declaring out as a global variable and equate that variable to the out array in the function body.  So how to solve the problem without doing that.

here is what I did and it works fine, but I don't like it.

#include <iostream.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <conio.h>

int out[800];

void deci2bin(int d, int size, int *b)
      {
   int i;

   for(i = 0; i < size; i++)
         {
      b[i] = 0;
      }
   b[size - 1] = d & 0x01;

    for (i = size - 2; i >= 0; i--)
          {
      d = d >> 1;
      b[i] = d & 0x01;
          }
      }


void gen01dat( long data_len, int *out_array)
      {
   long t,j;
   int b[100];
   int y2[100][8];
   int y3[800];
   int y4[800];
   out_array = (int*)malloc(800*sizeof(int));


    for (t = 0; t < data_len; t++)
          {
      out_array[t] = ceil(127*sin(0.5*t));
      }

        for (t =0;t<100;t++)
         {
      deci2bin(out_array[t],8,b);
         for (j=0;j<8;j++)
            {
         y2[t][j] = b[j];
         }
      }

   for (t=0;t<100;t++)
         {
      for (j=0;j<8;j++)
            {
         y3[8*t + j] = y2[t][j];
         }
      }

   for (t=0;t<800;t++)
         {
      out_array[t] = y3[t];
      }

   for (t=0;t<800;t++)
         {
      y4[t] = 1;
      if (out_array[t] < 0)
            {
         out_array[t] = -out_array[t];
         y4[t] = -1;
         }
      y4[t] = out_array[t] * y4[t];
      }

   for (t=0;t<800;t++)
         {
     out_array[t] = y4[t];
     out[t] = out_array[t];
      }
   /*
   for(int i=0;i<20;i++)
         {
      cout<<out_array[i];
      }
      cout<<endl; */

   free(out_array);
   }

void main()
      {

   //cout<<endl;
   gen01dat(800,out);
   for (int i=0;i<20;i++)
         {
      cout<<out[i];
      }
   getch();
   }

 
I would have expected this:

void main()
{
   int *out_array = (int*)malloc(100*sizeof(int));

   gen01dat(20,out_array);
   for (int i=0;i<20;i++)
    {
      cout<<out_array[i];
      cout<<endl;
      }
   getch();
   }


to work, as long as you removed the malloc call inside gen01dat. It is not needed (and in fact detrimental) since out_array (and its corresponding argument) already point to a block of memory.

Conversly, I would expect it to still fail, even with a global declaration of out[800], as long as the malloc call is still in gen01dat.

Is malloc call still really there in gen01dat, or is the code posting inaccurate?

ok work when removing malloc from the function

thanks
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