[Tinyos-help] [PoolC] Returning NULL

[Pratibha S]

sorry, that was a typo.. im getting and putting in the same pool.

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Omprakash Gnawali <gnawali at usc.edu> wrote:

>  On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Pratibha S<psundars at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > PoolC get() is returning NULL even though not Pool.empty() and
> > Pool.size()>0.
> > I allocate a pointer-to-struct say 'position_t' having three pointers
> v[3],
> > typedef position * position_t;
> > interface Pool<position>;
> > void New_position()
> >  {       position_t pos;
> > if(! call Pool.empty()){
> >         atomic{
> >         pos = call edgePool.get();
> >         }}
> >         else
> >         {
> >         dbg_clear("usr","Out of memory - %d\n",call Pool.size());
> >         exit(0);
> >         }
> >         if(pos == NULL) // Becomes TRUE and printing non_zero size
> >            dbg_clear("usr", "Failed allocation -%d\n", call Pool.size());
> >        pos->v[0] = NULL; // SEGMENTATION FAULT OCCURS HERE
> >        pos->v[1] = NULL;
> >        pos->v[2] = NULL;
> >            return pos;
> > }
> >  this code doesn't cause segmentation fault every time, it is
> > called. variables in Pool will be constantly allocated and freed. after
> some
> > put()s and get()s, this is causing error. Can anyone tell me why?
>
> You are checking Pool and getting from edgePool?
>
> - om_p
>
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