C++ memory issue - memory

I'm currently building a prime number finder, and am having a memory problem:
This may be due to a corruption of the heap, which indicates a bug in PrimeNumbers.exe or any of the DLLs it has loaded.
PS. Please don't say to me if this isn't the way to find prime numbers, I want to figure it out myself!
Code:
// PrimeNumbers.cpp : main project file.
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <vector>
using namespace System;
using namespace std;
int main(array<System::String ^> ^args)
{
Console::WriteLine(L"Until what number do you want to stop?");
signed const int numtstop = Convert::ToInt16(Console::ReadLine());
bool * isvalid = new bool[numtstop];
int allattempts = numtstop*numtstop; // Find all the possible combinations of numbers
for (int currentnumb = 0; currentnumb <= allattempts; currentnumb++) // For each number try to find a combination
{
for (int i = 0; i <= numtstop; i++)
{
for (int tnumb = 0; tnumb <= numtstop; tnumb++)
{
if (i*tnumb == currentnumb)
{
isvalid[currentnumb] = false;
Console::WriteLine("Error");
}
}
}
}
Console::WriteLine(L"\nAll prime number in the range of:" + Convert::ToString(numtstop));
for (int pnts = 0; pnts <= numtstop; pnts++)
{
if (isvalid[pnts] != false)
{
Console::WriteLine(pnts);
}
}
return 0;
}
I don't see the memory problem.
Please help.

You are allocating numtstop booleans, but you index that array using a variable that ranges from zero to numtstop*numtstop. This will be severely out of bounds for all numstop values greater than 1.
You should either allocate more booleans (numtstop*numtstop) or use a different variable to index into isvalid (for example, i, which ranges from 0 to numstop). I am sorry, I cannot be more precise than that because of your request not to comment on your algorithm of finding primes.
P.S. If you would like to read something on the topic of finding small primes, here is a link to a great book by Dijkstra. He teaches you how to construct a program for the first 1000 primes on pages 35..49.

Problem is that you use native C++ in managed C++/CLI code. And use new without delete of course.

`currentnumb` :
is bigger than the size of the array, which is just numtstop. You are probably going out of bound, this might be your issue.

You never delete[] your isvalid local, this is a memory leak.

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About extending a Look Up Table at compile time

I'd like to extend my instrumental Profiler in order to avoid it affect too much performances.
Im my current implementation, I'm using a ProfilerHelper taking one string, which is put whereever you want in the profiling f().
The ctor is starting the measurement and the dector is closing it, logging the Delta in an unordered_map entry, which is key is the string.
Now, I'd like to turn all of that into a faster stuff.
First of all, I'd like to create a string LUT (Look Up Table) contaning the f()s names at compile time, and turn the unordered_map to a plain vector which is paired by the string function LUT.
Now the question is: I've managed to create a LUT but std::string_view, but I cannot find a way to extend it at compile time.
A first rought trial sounds like this:
template<unsigned N>
constexpr auto LUT() {
std::array<std::string_view, N> Strs{};
for (unsigned n = 0; n < N; n++) {
Strs[n] = "";
}
return Strs;
};
constexpr std::array<std::string_view, 0> StringsLUT { LUT<0>() };
constexpr auto AddString(std::string_view const& Str)
{
constexpr auto Size = StringsLUT.size();
std::array<std::string_view, Size + 1> Copy{};
for (auto i = 0; i < Size; ++i)
Copy[i] = StringsLUT[i];
Copy[Size] = Str;
return Copy;
};
int main()
{
constexpr auto Strs = AddString(__builtin_FUNCTION());
//for (auto const Str : Strs)
std::cout << Strs[0] << std::endl;
}
So my idea should be to recall the AddString whenever needed in my f()s to be profiled, extending this list at compile time.
But of course I should take the returned Copy and replace the StringsLUT everytime, to land to a final StringsLUT with all the f() names inside it.
Is there a way to do that at compile time?
Sorry, but I'm just entering the magic "new" world of constexpr applied to LUT right in these days.
Tx for your support in advance.

How to ask Clang++ not to cache function result during -O3 optimization?

This is my code:
int foo(int x) {
return x + 1; // I have more complex code here
}
int main() {
int s = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; ++i) {
s += foo(42);
}
}
Without -O3 this code works for a few minutes. With -O3 it returns the same result in no time. Clang++, I believe, caches the value of foo(42) (it's a pure function) and doesn't call it a million times. How can I instruct it NOT to apply this particular optimization for this particular function call?
Out of curiosity, can you share why you would want to disable that optimization?
Anyway, about your question:
In your example code, s is never read after the loop, so the compiler would throw the whole loop away. So let's assume that s is used after the loop.
I'm not aware of any pragmas or compiler options to disable a particular optimization in a particular section of code.
Is changing the code an option?
To prevent that optimization in a portable manner, you can look for a creative way to compute the function call argument in a way such that the compiler is no longer able to treat the argument as constant. Of course the challenge here is to actually use a trick that does not rely on undefined behavior and that cannot be "outsmarted" by a newer compiler version.
See the commented example below.
pro: you use a trick that uses only the language that you can apply selectively
con: you get an additional memory access in every loop iteration; however, the access will be satisfied by your CPU cache most of the time
I verified the generated assembly for your particular example with clang++ -O3 -S. The compiler now generates your loop and no longer caches the result. However, the function gets inlined. If you want to prevent that as well, you can declare foo with __attribute__((noinline)), for example.
int foo(int x) {
return x + 1; // I have more complex code here
}
volatile int dummy = 0; // initialized to 0 and never changed
int main() {
int s = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; ++i) {
// Because of the volatile variable, the compiler is forced to assume
// that the function call argument is different for each loop
// iteration and it is no longer able to use a cached result.
s += foo(42 + dummy);
}
}

Search for sequence in Uint8List

Is there a fast (native) method to search for a sequence in a Uint8List?
///
/// Return index of first occurrence of seq in list
///
int indexOfSeq(Uint8List list, Uint8List seq) {
...
}
EDIT: Changed List<int> into Uint8List
No. There is no built-in way to search for a sequence of elements in a list.
I am also not aware of any dart:ffi based implementations.
The simplest approach would be:
extension IndexOfElements<T> on List<T> {
int indexOfElements(List<T> elements, [int start = 0]) {
if (elements.isEmpty) return start;
var end = length - elements.length;
if (start > end) return -1;
var first = elements.first;
var pos = start;
while (true) {
pos = indexOf(first, pos);
if (pos < 0 || pos > end) return -1;
for (var i = 1; i < elements.length; i++) {
if (this[pos + i] != elements[i]) {
pos++;
continue;
}
}
return pos;
}
}
}
This has worst-case time complexity O(length*elements.length). There are several more algorithms with better worst-case complexity, but they also have larger constant factors and more expensive pre-computations (KMP, BMH). Unless you search for the same long list several times, or do so in a very, very long list, they're unlikely to be faster in practice (and they'd probably have an API where you compile the pattern first, then search with it.)
You could use dart:ffi to bind to memmem from string.h as you suggested.
We do the same with binding to malloc from stdlib.h in package:ffi (source).
final DynamicLibrary stdlib = Platform.isWindows
? DynamicLibrary.open('kernel32.dll')
: DynamicLibrary.process();
final PosixMalloc posixMalloc =
stdlib.lookupFunction<Pointer Function(IntPtr), Pointer Function(int)>('malloc');
Edit: as lrn pointed out, we cannot expose the inner data pointer of a Uint8List at the moment, because the GC might relocate it.
One could use dart_api.h and use the FFI to pass TypedData through the FFI trampoline as Dart_Handle and use Dart_TypedDataAcquireData from the dart_api.h to access the inner data pointer.
(If you want to use this in Flutter, we would need to expose Dart_TypedDataAcquireData and Dart_TypedDataReleaseData in dart_api_dl.h https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/40607 I've filed https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/44442 to track this.)
Alternatively, could address https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/36707 so that we could just expose the inner data pointer of a Uint8List directly in the FFI trampoline.

Count of the biggest bin in histogram, C#, sharp

I want to make histogram of my data so, I use histogram class at c# using MathNet.Numerics.Statistics.
double[] array = { 2, 2, 5,56,78,97,3,3,5,23,34,67,12,45,65 };
Vector<double> data = Vector<double>.Build.DenseOfArray(array);
int binAmount = 3;
Histogram _currentHistogram = new Histogram(data, binAmount);
How can I get the count of the biggest bin? Or just the index of the bigest bin? I try to get it by using GetBucketOf but to do this I need the element in this bucket :(
Is there any other way to do this? I read the documentation and Google and I can't find anything.
(Hi, I would use a comment for this but i just joined so today and don't yet have 50 reputation to comment!) I just had a look at - http://numerics.mathdotnet.com/api/MathNet.Numerics.Statistics/Histogram.htm. That documentation page (footer says it was built using http://docu.jagregory.com/) shows a public property named Item which returns a Bucket. I'm wondering if that is the property you need to use because the automatically generated documentation states that the Item property "Gets' the n'th bucket" but isn't clear how the Item property acts as an indexer. Looking at your code i would try _currentHistogram.Item[n] first (if that doesn't work try _currentHistogram[n]) where you are iterating the Buckets in the histogram using something like -
var countOfBiggest = -1;
var indexOfBiggest = -1;
for (var n = 0; n < _currentHistogram.BucketCount; n++)
{
if (_currentHistogram.Item[n].Count > countOfBiggest)
{
countOfBiggest = _currentHistogram.Item[n].Count;
indexOfBiggest = n;
}
}
The code above assumes that Histogram uses 0-based and not 1-based indexing.

Parsing with Awesomium

the awesomium answering forums seem pretty much dead, so I'm reposting this here
First of all, before starting to learn Awesomium I used the HtmlAgilityPack library for all my parsing needs, but the library is not being updated anymore and I decided to move to Awesomium. (so my approach is based on my experience with HAP)
I figured out how to parse lists of objects with Awesomium, but I can't figure out how to work with them. For example:
public dynamic FindNodes(string xpath, dynamic node = null, WebView wv = null)
{
if (wv == null) wv = mainView;
dynamic nodes = (JSObject)wv.ExecuteJavascriptWithResult(String.Format("document.evaluate(\"{0}\", {1}, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null)", xpath, "document")));
int length = nodes.snapshotLength;
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
{
Console.WriteLine(nodes.snapshotItem(i).innerText);
}
return nodes;
}
The problems start after I return the nodes. I want to perform a series of searches for each node, so after returning them I decided that the following should work:
dynamic weakCounters = ap.FindNodes("//div[#id='weaklist']/ul/li");
for (int i = 0; i < weakCounters.snapshotLength; i++)
{
ap.FindNodes("//h3[#class='black']", weakCounters.snapshotItem(i));
}
But it did not. The part where I'm trying to get the length of the list and of course, if I try to get a snapshot of the item directly I get an error.
I understand, that I'm making a HUGE mistake somewhere. I just can't understand where.
Edit: Surprisingly if I do the following, everything seems fine, but it just doesn't look right to create a new variable everytime I need to access it (that's just bananas)
dynamic weakCounters = ap.FindNodes("//div[#id='weaklist']/ul/li");
dynamic nodes = weakCounters;
for (int i = 0; i < nodes.snapshotLength; i++)
{
Also, how can I pass the result (element) that I have extracted back to awesomium so that I could do a "subsearch" ?
cross-posted answer from http://answers.awesomium.com/questions/4276/parsing-with-awesomium.html
Why do you need Awesomium for HTML parsing? What's wrong with
HtmlAgilityPack?
Download page with Awesomium (if that is why you need it), get HTML,
parse it with HtmlAgilityPack.
Parsing like this should be very slow (if it return many elements).

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