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// Lecture 4 exercise 2
// Implement AllocSet( ), FreeSet( )
// - AllocSet( ) needs to use malloc twice:
// - once to allocate a new ComplexSet
// - once to allocate the “points” field inside it
//
// - FreeSet( ) needs to use free twice
#include // needed for printf()
#include // needed for assert()
#include // needed for malloc()
typedef struct complex_st {
double real; // real component
double imag; // imaginary component
} Complex;
typedef struct complex_set_st {
int num_points_in_set;
Complex *points; // an array of Complex
} ComplexSet;
// here are the prototypes we need to implement
ComplexSet *AllocSet(Complex c_arr[], int size);
void FreeSet(ComplexSet *set);
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
Complex arr[5];
ComplexSet *x;
x = AllocSet(arr, 5);
assert(x->num_points_in_set == 5);
FreeSet(x);
return 0;
}
ComplexSet *AllocSet(Complex c_arr[], int size) {
ComplexSet *newset;
Complex *pointarray;
int i;
assert(size > 0);
// malloc a new ComplexSet
newset = (ComplexSet *) malloc(sizeof(ComplexSet));
if (newset == NULL)
return NULL;
// malloc the new pointarray
pointarray = (Complex *) malloc(size*sizeof(Complex));
if (pointarray == NULL) {
// sneaky case: free the malloc'ed ComplexSet if we fail!
free(newset);
return NULL;
}
// initialize the fields
newset->points = pointarray;
for (i=0; inum_points_in_set = size;
return newset;
}
void FreeSet(ComplexSet *set) {
// do some sanity checks
assert(set != NULL);
assert(set->points != NULL);
// free the point array within the structure
free(set->points);
// good hygiene to set it to NULL after freeing
set->points = NULL;
// free the ComplexSet itself
free(set);
}