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Old   February 8, 2011, 09:24
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Dear forumers,

Firstly I will shortly describe my problem. I would like to set up an Array of Arrays (2d array), which is of size: N_boundFaces x N_boundFaces. Such an array will correspond to the coefficients of heat exchange between a given boundary-cell-face and the rest of boundary-cell-faces. Having read some hints in this forum, I came up with an idea of constructing a PtrList. But at the beginning I have problems with setting up a single 1d-PtrList:

The code is following...:
(...)
const int N_boundFaces = mesh.boundaryMesh().size() * mesh.boundaryMesh()[0].size(); //N_boundFaces = N_patches * N_faces_in_patch
PtrList< int > D(N_boundFaces);
Info << "size of PtrList D = " << D.size() << endl ;

for( int i = 0; i != N_boundFaces ; i++ )
{
D.set(i, 2); // set all the values in the PtrList to 2
}
(...)


and the compiling errors are:
(...)
In file included from /opt/openfoam171/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/tmp.H:142,
from /opt/openfoam171/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/PtrListI.H:29,
from /opt/openfoam171/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/PtrList.H:311,
from /opt/openfoam171/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/List.C:30,
from /opt/openfoam171/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/List.H:262,
from /opt/openfoam171/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/labelList.H:36,
from /opt/openfoam171/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/Pstream.H:43,
from /opt/openfoam171/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/OPstream.H:35,
from /opt/openfoam171/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/parRun.H:35,
from /opt/openfoam171/src/finiteVolume/lnInclude/fvCFD.H:4,
from laplacianFoamModifiedRandomNumberV03.C:32:
/opt/openfoam171/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/tmpI.H: In destructor ‘Foam::tmp<T>::~tmp() [with T = int]’:
rayTracing.H:43: instantiated from here
/opt/openfoam171/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/tmpI.H:76: error: request for member ‘okToDelete’ in ‘*((Foam::tmp<int>*)this)->Foam::tmp<int>:tr_’, which is of non-class type ‘int’
/opt/openfoam171/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/tmpI.H:83: error: request for member ‘operator--’ in ‘*((Foam::tmp<int>*)this)->Foam::tmp<int>:tr_’, which is of non-class type ‘int’
/opt/openfoam171/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/tmpI.H: In member function ‘T* Foam::tmp<T>:tr() const [with T = int]’:
/opt/openfoam171/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/PtrListI.H:90: instantiated from ‘Foam::autoPtr<T> Foam::PtrList<T>::set(Foam::label, const Foam::tmp<T>&) [with T = int]’
rayTracing.H:43: instantiated from here
/opt/openfoam171/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/tmpI.H:127: error: request for member ‘resetRefCount’ in ‘* ptr’, which is of non-class type ‘int’
make: *** [Make/linuxGccDPOpt/laplacianFoamModifiedRandomNumberV03.o] Błąd 1


So my questions are the following:
1. what is the best way to loop over the elements in PtrList?
a) use simple for loop with int counter: for( int i = 0; != N_boundFaces; i++ )
b) use iterator: for ( PtrList<int>::iterator i = D.begin(); i != D.end(); ++i)
c) use: forAll( D, i )
2. how successfuly replace a given entity in the PtrList? use D.set(i, 200)??
3. how print out the value of a given entity, e.g. D[i]? Info << D[i] ;??

I know that some answers to my questions were previously mentioned, but I couldn't manage to solve my problem. Every help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
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Old   February 10, 2011, 04:14
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I'm still tackling the problem, but hopefully I see an end. I will try to post some conclusions from my little experience :-).

Still I really appreciate any help.
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Old   February 11, 2011, 05:56
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PtrList is a container for pointers to objects and there is a bunch of templates in it. Why don't you just use a labelList?

If you want an example of PtrList, try a PtrList<fvPatch> or similar.

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Old   February 16, 2011, 07:41
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Hello Hrvoje,

Thanks for your suggestions! I have to lean more about them. I'm fresh user of OpenFoam, so for now I managed to solve the problem just by creating a new scalar array. I decided not to use ptrList because the size of the array is constant during the program execution. Once again thanks.
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Old   May 18, 2011, 10:44
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Dear forumers,

Finally I succeded in finding out how to do basic operations with ptrList< type >. Below I posted some lines of my code. Hope it will be useful, because previously I searched the forum and didn't find basic info on this subject.

Code:
    /* Defining pointer list of scalars */
    PtrList< scalar > U_ ;
    scalar A = 3.1415;
    scalar *Aptr ;

    Aptr = &A ;

    U_.setSize( 10 ) ;

    for (label i = 0; i < 10; i++)
    {
        U_.set(i, Aptr) ;            // the ptrList can be filled in passing the pointer Aptr to scalar A
        Info << " if is set U_[i] = " << U_.set(i);    //checking if the list element U_[i] is already set --> if not the value of U_.set(i) == 0 ;
        Info << " U_[i] = " << U_[i] << endl ;         // prints out the values of prtList
    }
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Dear forumers,

Finally I succeded in finding out how to do basic operations with ptrList< type >. Below I posted some lines of my code. Hope it will be useful, because previously I searched the forum and didn't find basic info on this subject.

Code:
    /* Defining pointer list of scalars */
    PtrList< scalar > U_ ;
    scalar A = 3.1415;
    scalar *Aptr ;
 
    Aptr = &A ;
 
    U_.setSize( 10 ) ;
 
    for (label i = 0; i < 10; i++)
    {
        U_.set(i, Aptr) ;            // the ptrList can be filled in passing the pointer Aptr to scalar A
        Info << " if is set U_[i] = " << U_.set(i);    //checking if the list element U_[i] is already set --> if not the value of U_.set(i) == 0 ;
        Info << " U_[i] = " << U_[i] << endl ;         // prints out the values of prtList
    }
Bye! :-)

Are you really certain that your code works correctly with PtrList?
Have you checked with valgrind that everything actually works properly when the U_ variable is destroyed? I have my doubts. Take a look at the destructor for PtrList and you'll see that it is doing a 'delete'. Your code will not mix well with this at all.
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Dear olesen, many thanks for pointing out the problem. As I said before I am a beginner in openFoam, so I really appreciate all replies. I tried checking the code with valgrind and it shouts for some errors indeed. You have a valgrind response below:

Code:
==4315== Invalid free() / delete / delete[]
==4315==    at 0x4C26DCF: operator delete(void*) (vg_replace_malloc.c:387)
==4315==    by 0x5445C23: Foam::PtrList<double>::~PtrList() (PtrList.C:133)
==4315==    by 0x5442D79: Foam::pkModel::pk::checkDij_reciprocity() 
==4315==    by 0x44D031: main (hEqn.H:19)
==4315==  Address 0x7feffc260 is on thread 1's stack
==4315== 

...
...


==4315== 
==4315== HEAP SUMMARY:
==4315==     in use at exit: 300 bytes in 11 blocks
==4315==   total heap usage: 387,720 allocs, 387,719 frees, 41,168,150 bytes allocated
==4315== 
==4315== LEAK SUMMARY:
==4315==    definitely lost: 60 bytes in 1 blocks
==4315==    indirectly lost: 240 bytes in 10 blocks
==4315==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==4315==    still reachable: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==4315==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==4315== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory
==4315== 
==4315== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==4315== ERROR SUMMARY: 10 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 4 from 4)
In that case could you show how to properly define and use PtrList<> in order not to have memory problems?

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In that case could you show how to properly define and use PtrList<> in order not to have memory problems?
The fundamental question you should ask yourself: "why use PtrList if List will do?"

Code:
 
// Defining list of scalars
    List<scalar> U_ ;
    scalar A = 3.1415;

    U_.setSize(10) ;
    forAll(U_, i)
    {
        U_[i] = A;
        Info << " U_[i] = " << U_[i] << endl;
    }

Code:
 
// Defining list of scalars
    PtrList<scalar> U_ ;
    scalar A = 3.1415;

    U_.setSize(10) ;
    forAll(U_, i)
    {
        U_.set(i, new scalar(A));
        Info << " U_[i] = " << U_[i] << endl;
    }
If you don't actually need pointers for something special, you should generally stick with a "normal" List instead of using a PtrList.
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Dear Mark,

That was the piece of the code I actually was interested in and it works perfectly without any errors. Thanks a lot !
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