On Dec 6, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
The issue that I had to solve by arduously single-stepping through a complex program (took a week) turned out to be a pointer stepping outside of pre-determined places within a single-dimensional array; that is, the pointer stayed within the overall array but stepped outside of determined areas within the array and this resulted in the clobbering of areas elsewhere. Having bounds checking that tells me when it stepped out of the overall array would not have helped. What is needed is something that says has it stepped out of a pre-defined area within a single array. My application is written in C and maintains its own stack which is what was clobbered.
boost.org has a C++ implementation of a "subrange". I've never used it and do not know much about it. But it sounds like (as in Pascal), you want you array indexes to be a subrange that is checked. I think the boost library can help you there. Perry Smith ( pedz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ) Ease Software, Inc. ( http://www.easesoftware.com ) Low cost SATA Disk Systems for IBMs p5, pSeries, and RS/6000 AIX systems
