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  • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

    @JoeCFD said in App crashes due to QNetworkReply:

    especially on Windows.

    This is wrong - you always have to initialize your variables...

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    @Christian-Ehrlicher On Linux the default value is nullptr. It is a good habit to initialize them with nullptr all the time.

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      @JoeCFD said in App crashes due to QNetworkReply:

      On Linux the default value is nullptr.

      No, it is not.

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      • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

        @JoeCFD said in App crashes due to QNetworkReply:

        On Linux the default value is nullptr.

        No, it is not.

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        @Christian-Ehrlicher
        double * aaa;
        std::cout << "aaa=" << aaa << std::endl;
        aaa=0

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          Just because it does print 0 here it does not mean it's correctly initialized - it's by accident because your stack where aaa points to is currently filled with zeros. A good memory analyzer like e.g. valgrind will tell you that you're accessing uninitialized data.

          See https://godbolt.org/z/9vsrva15a - myPtr is not initialized anywhere before usage.

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          • JoeCFDJ JoeCFD

            @Christian-Ehrlicher
            double * aaa;
            std::cout << "aaa=" << aaa << std::endl;
            aaa=0

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            @JoeCFD said in App crashes due to QNetworkReply:

            double * aaa;
            std::cout << "aaa=" << aaa << std::endl;
            aaa=0

            This is the best way to create an application with random crashes!
            Never use a uninitialized pointer.

            This is a very basic rule in C/C++.

            It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (Sherlock Holmes)

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            • KroMignonK KroMignon

              @JoeCFD said in App crashes due to QNetworkReply:

              double * aaa;
              std::cout << "aaa=" << aaa << std::endl;
              aaa=0

              This is the best way to create an application with random crashes!
              Never use a uninitialized pointer.

              This is a very basic rule in C/C++.

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              @KroMignon I know. I always initialize all pointers.

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              • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

                Just because it does print 0 here it does not mean it's correctly initialized - it's by accident because your stack where aaa points to is currently filled with zeros. A good memory analyzer like e.g. valgrind will tell you that you're accessing uninitialized data.

                See https://godbolt.org/z/9vsrva15a - myPtr is not initialized anywhere before usage.

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                @Christian-Ehrlicher You are right. I tried it in middle of my app and uninitialized pointers are dangled. My memory is getting worse. I remember one of the differences between Linux and Windows is that variables on Linux have default values. I am wrong. But I do initialize all my pointers.

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                • JoeCFDJ JoeCFD

                  @Christian-Ehrlicher You are right. I tried it in middle of my app and uninitialized pointers are dangled. My memory is getting worse. I remember one of the differences between Linux and Windows is that variables on Linux have default values. I am wrong. But I do initialize all my pointers.

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                  @JoeCFD
                  It's a C++ language thing, so not per-platform. What you may find, on any platform/compiler, is that there is a difference between what you find in uninitialized (stack) variables between debug versus release builds. Or that may apply to heap areas. It's all undefined :)

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                  • JoeCFDJ JoeCFD

                    @Christian-Ehrlicher You are right. I tried it in middle of my app and uninitialized pointers are dangled. My memory is getting worse. I remember one of the differences between Linux and Windows is that variables on Linux have default values. I am wrong. But I do initialize all my pointers.

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                    @JoeCFD said in App crashes due to QNetworkReply:

                    I remember one of the differences between Linux and Windows is that variables on Linux have default values. I am wrong. But I do initialize all my pointers.

                    AFAIK, on Linux/GCC pointers are never initialized per default.
                    On Windows/MSVC, they are set to 0 in debug build, but not in release.

                    It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (Sherlock Holmes)

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                    • KroMignonK KroMignon

                      @JoeCFD said in App crashes due to QNetworkReply:

                      I remember one of the differences between Linux and Windows is that variables on Linux have default values. I am wrong. But I do initialize all my pointers.

                      AFAIK, on Linux/GCC pointers are never initialized per default.
                      On Windows/MSVC, they are set to 0 in debug build, but not in release.

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                      @KroMignon Good to know. Thanks. I have not followed this for ages.

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                      • KroMignonK KroMignon

                        @JoeCFD said in App crashes due to QNetworkReply:

                        I remember one of the differences between Linux and Windows is that variables on Linux have default values. I am wrong. But I do initialize all my pointers.

                        AFAIK, on Linux/GCC pointers are never initialized per default.
                        On Windows/MSVC, they are set to 0 in debug build, but not in release.

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                        @KroMignon said in App crashes due to QNetworkReply:

                        On Windows/MSVC, they are set to 0 in debug build, but not in release.

                        Wrong again - it's 0xCCCCCCCC or 0xCDCDCDCD
                        See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#Debug_values

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                        • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

                          @KroMignon said in App crashes due to QNetworkReply:

                          On Windows/MSVC, they are set to 0 in debug build, but not in release.

                          Wrong again - it's 0xCCCCCCCC or 0xCDCDCDCD
                          See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#Debug_values

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                          @Christian-Ehrlicher said in App crashes due to QNetworkReply:

                          Wrong again - it's 0xCCCCCCCC or 0xCDCDCDCD

                          Yes, I was wrong... sorry, too fare away.
                          I mixed up pointer initialization and variable initialization!!

                          It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (Sherlock Holmes)

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                          • Pl45m4P Pl45m4

                            @Padawan

                            As the screenshot shows, you have a segfault here. Probably from accessing any invalid pointer.
                            You commented some lines?! Does it still crash when you run it like this?

                            For example; I've noticed that you deleteLater your apiData, but there is also a delete apiData in d'tor (commented but still there).

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                            @Pl45m4 It always crashes if the API Key Request process happens

                            Ningen

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