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Homework. Continue with K&R Chapter 5 Skipping sections 5.7-5.9 for now Not covering section 5.12 Continue on HW5. Review Pointers. int a[ ] ={1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19}; int *pa = &a[4],*pb = &a[1]; What is the value of: *(a + 2)? Same as a[2]

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  1. Homework • Continue with K&R Chapter 5 • Skipping sections 5.7-5.9 for now • Not covering section 5.12 • Continue on HW5

  2. Review Pointers. int a[ ] ={1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19}; int *pa = &a[4],*pb = &a[1]; What is the value of: *(a + 2)? Same as a[2] What is the value of: pb - pa? Integer -3 What is the value of: pb[1]? Same as a[2] What is the effect of: *pa += 5? a[4] += 5 What is the effect of: *(pa += 2)? pa = &a[6], value is a[6] What is the effect of: *(a += 2)? Illegal, can't modify an array name such as a What is the value of: pa[3]? Same as a[9]

  3. Valid Pointer Arithmetic • Set one pointer to the value of another pointer of the same type. pa = pb; • Add or subtract a pointer and an integer: pa + 3 pa - 5 • Subtract two pointers to members of same array: pa – pb Note: Result is an integer • Compare two pointers to members of same array: if (pa <= pb)

  4. Valid Pointer Arithmetic • Assign a pointer to zero (called NULL in stdio) pa = NULL; same as pa = 0; • Compare a pointer to zero (called NULL in stdio) If (pa != NULL); BUT NOT if (pa > NULL) • Note: a NULL pointer doesn't point to anything (When used as a return value, it indicates failure of a function that is defined to return a pointer) • All other pointer arithmetic is invalid.

  5. Valid Pointer Arithmetic • If we add new declarations to ones on slide #2, char s[ ] = "Hello, world!", *cp = &s[4]; • Which assignments below are valid?: cp = cp - 3; YES pa = cp; NO (Possible alignment problem, int’s on 4 byte boundaries) pa = pa + pb; NO s[4] = (cp < pa)? 'a': 'b'; NO s[4] = (cp > 0)? 'a': 'b'; NO cp = NULL; YES

  6. Pointer Arrays, K&R 5.6 • Recall that if we define char a[10]; • We are setting aside space in memory for the elements of array a, but a can be treated as a pointer. We can write *a or *(a + 5). • Now think about the declaration: char *a[10];

  7. Pointers to Pointers • What does the array a contain now? Pointers to char variables or strings! • Though hard to think about, we can write: **a /* First char in string ptd to by a[0] */ *(*(a + 5) + 2) /* Third char in string ptd to by a[5] */

  8. Pointers to Pointers • Now what is the use of keeping an array of pointers to char strings? • K&R gives an example: • Reading in a sequence of lines • Placing them in blocks of memory (e.g. malloc) • Building an array of pointers to the blocks • Sorting by moving pointers – not strings

  9. Pointers to Pointers • Example of pointers to unsorted char strings char *lineptr[MAXLINES]; lineptr[0] lineptr[1] lineptr[2] lineptr[3] lineptr[4] . . . d e \0 a b c \0 k \0

  10. Pointers to Pointers • To initialize the array with fixed values char x[] = “k”; char y[] = “abc”; char z[] = “de”; lineptr[0] = x; /* or = &x[0]; */ lineptr[1] = y; /* or = &y[0]; */ lineptr[2] = z; /* or = &z[0]; */

  11. Pointers to Pointers • Examples of pointers to sorted char strings char *lineptr[MAXLINES]; lineptr[0] lineptr[1] lineptr[2] lineptr[3] lineptr[4] . . . d e \0 a b c \0 k \0

  12. Pointers to Pointers • Write out lines in pointer order (easy way) void writelines(char * lineptr[], int nlines) { int i = 0; while (i < nlines) printf("%s\n", lineptr[i++]); }

  13. Pointers to Pointers • Write out lines in pointer order (efficiently) void writelines(char **lineptr, int nlines) { while (nlines-- > 0) printf("%s\n", *lineptr++); }

  14. Command-line Arguments, K&R 5.10 • The main( ) function can be called with arguments • Must declare them to use them: main (int argc, char *argv[ ]) OR main (int argc, char **argv) • The value of argc is the number of char strings in the array argv[ ] which is an array of pointers to the command line tokens separated by white space • Element argv[0] always points to the command name typed in by the user to invoke the program • If there are no other arguments, argc = 1

  15. Command-line Arguments • If the program was compiled as echo and the user types: echo hello, world • argc will be 3 (the number of pointers in argv[]) argv[0] argv[1] argv[2] argv[3] argv[4] . . . ?? ?? ‘e’ ‘c’ ‘h’ ‘o’ ‘\0’ ‘h’ ‘e’ ‘l’ ‘l’ ‘o’ ‘,’ ‘\0’ ‘w’ ‘o’ ‘r’ ‘l’ ‘d’ ‘\0’

  16. Command-line Arguments • The program can print back the arguments typed in by the user following the echo command: int main (int argc, char *argv[ ]) { /* envision argc = 3, *argv[0]=“echo”, …*/ while (--argc > 0) printf("%s%s", *++argv, (argc > 1) ? " " : ""); printf("\n"); return 0; }

  17. Parsing Arguments • Nice example given in Section 5.10. The program compiled with the run file name “find” looks for a pattern in standard input and prints out lines found. • Want options -x and -n for invocation: find [-x] [-n] pattern OR find [-xn] pattern • Program will parse option flags: except and number. • Loop to parse options and set up flags is:

  18. Parsing Arguments • Loop through argv entries with first char == '-' (maybe find -x -n pattern) while (--argc > 0 && (*++argv)[0] == '-') while (c = *++argv[0]) switch (c) { case 'x' : except = 1; break; case 'n' : number = 1; break; default : printf("illegal option %c\n", c);break; }

  19. Parsing Arguments • How (*++argv)[0] and *++argv[0] differ? (*++argv)[0] • Pre-increments argv pointer (points to next string) • De-references pointer (to get pointer to string) • De-references pointer with 0 offset to get first character *++argv[0] • De-references argv pointer with 0 offset (first string) • Pre-increments argv[0] (points to next char in string) • De-references updated pointer to get second character

  20. Recursive Main Program int main(int argc, char *argv[ ])/* recursive main program */ { /* calculate factorial of arg[1] */ char array[100]; char *nargv[2] = {"", array}; unsigned int i; if (argc != 2) return 0; if (!strcmp(argv[1], "1")) return 1; else { itoa(atoi(argv[1]) - 1, nargv[1]); i = atoi(argv[1]) * main(argc, nargv); printf("Returning: %d\n", i); return i; } } /* see Lecture 7 for function itoa – not in library */

  21. Stack Frames for main() Recursion Stack Pointer argc argv • UNIX shell calls main with: main (2, {“rmain”, “3”}); • main calls main with: main (2, {“”, “2”}); • main calls main with: main (2, {“”, “1”}); • main returns 3 times 2 [0]=“rmain” [1]=“3” Stack Pointer argc argv 2 2 Stack Pointer [0]=“” [1]=“2” [0]=“rmain” [1]=“3” argc argv 2 2 2 [0]=“” [1]=“1” [0]=“rmain” [1]=“3” [0]=“” [1]=“2”

  22. Recursive Main Program blade64(32)% gcc -o rmain rmain.c blade64(33)% rmain 10 Returning: 2 Returning: 6 Returning: 24 Returning: 120 Returning: 720 Returning: 5040 Returning: 40320 Returning: 362880 Returning: 3628800 blade64(34)%

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