"Using a CIN to Create an Array of Strings in LabVIEW" example crashes LV on Linux

Question

Tried to utilize this NI example: "Using a CIN to Create an Array of Strings in LabVIEW" (http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niepd_web_display.display_epd4?p_guid=B4B282BE7EF907C8E034080020E74861&p_node=&p_source=External)
Compiles OK with the makefile made by the LV's lvmkmf utility. Nevertheless when I try to run the VI (with the code loaded into the CIN, of course), LabVIEW 7.1.1 on a SUSE 9.3 Linux machine crashes:
LabVIEW caught fatal signal
7.1.1 - Received SIGSEGV
Reason: address not mapped to object
Attempt to reference address: 0x0
Segmentation fault
Any ideas? Did anybody try this on a Windows machine?

Answer 1

H View Labs wrote:
Tried to utilize this NI example: "Using a CIN to Create an Array of Strings in LabVIEW" (http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niepd_web_display.display_epd4?p_guid=B4B282BE7EF907C8E034080020E74861&p_node=&p_source=External)
Compiles OK with the makefile made by the LV's lvmkmf utility. Nevertheless when I try to run the VI (with the code loaded into the CIN, of course), LabVIEW 7.1.1 on a SUSE 9.3 Linux machine crashes:
LabVIEW caught fatal signal
7.1.1 - Received SIGSEGV
Reason: address not mapped to object
Attempt to reference address: 0x0
Segmentation fault
Any ideas? Did anybody try this on a Windows machine?
This code is badly broken. In addition to resizing the actual handle to hold the number of string handles you also would need to create the string handles itself before attempting to write into them. NumericArrayResize is the fucntion to use as it will either resize an existing handle (if any) or create a new one if the value is uninitialized (NULL).
/* resize strarr to hold handles to NUMSTRINGS strings */
err = SetCINArraySize((UHandle)strarr, 0, NUMSTRINGS);
if (err)
goto out;
/* perform this loop once for each element */
/* of array of strings being created */
for (i = 0; i < NUMSTRINGS;) {
LStrHandle handle = (*strarr)->arg1[i];
/* determine length of string that will be element of strarr */
strsize = StrLen(str[i]);
err = NumericArrayResize(uB, 1, &handle, strsize);
if (err)
goto out;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
/* moves strsize bytes from the address pointed to */
/* by str[i] to the address pointed to by the data pointer in the handle */
MoveBlock(str[i], LStrBuf(*handle), strsize);
/* manually set size of string pointed to by *strarr */
(*((*strarr)->arg1[i]))->cnt = strsize;
/* manually set dimSize of strarr */
(*strarr)->dimSize = ++i;
return noErr;
out:
return err;
Rolf KalbermatterMessage Edited by rolfk on 06-30-2005 03:15 AM
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