Now let’s return to the task we undertook at the beginning of this section: to identify the problem that is causing the error message out of storage to be printed. You have invoked cscope, the cross-reference table has been built. The cscope menu of tasks appears on the screen.
The cscope Menu of Tasks:
% cscope cscope Press the ? key for help Find this C symbol: Find this global definition: Find functions called by this function: Find functions calling this function: Find this text string: Change this text string: Find this egrep pattern: Find this file: Find files #including this file:
Press the Return key to move the cursor down the screen (with wraparound at the bottom of the display), and ^p (Control-p) to move the cursor up; or use the up (ua) and down (da) arrow keys. You can manipulate the menu and perform other tasks with the following single-key commands:
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If the first character of the text for which you are searching matches one of these commands, you can escape the command by entering a \ (backslash) before the character.
Now move the cursor to the fifth menu item, Find this text string, enter the text out of storage, and press the Return key.
cscope Function: Requesting a Search for a Text String:
$ cscope cscope Press the ? key for help Find this C symbol Find this global definition Find functions called by this function Find functions calling this function Find this text string: out of storage Change this text string Find this egrep pattern Find this file Find files #including this file
cscope searches for the specified text, finds one line that contains it, and reports its finding.
cscope Function: Listing Lines Containing the Text String:
Text string: out of storage File Line 1 alloc.c 63 (void) fprintf(stderr, "\n%s: out of storage\n", argv0); Find this C symbol: Find this global definition: Find functions called by this function: Find functions calling this function: Find this text string: Change this text string: Find this egrep pattern: Find this file: Find files #including this file:
After cscope shows you the results of a successful search, you have several options. You may want to change one of the lines or examine the code surrounding it in the editor. Or, if cscope has found so many lines that a list of them does not fit on the screen at once, you may want to look at the next part of the list. The following table shows the commands available after cscope has found the specified text:
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Again, if the first character of the text for which you are searching matches one of these commands, you can escape the command by entering a backslash before the character.
Now examine the code around the newly found line. Enter 1 (the number of the line in the list). The editor is invoked with the file alloc.c with the cursor at the beginning of line 63 of alloc.c.
cscope Function: Examining a Line of Code:
{ return(alloctest(realloc(p, (unsigned) size))); } /* check for memory allocation failure */ static char * alloctest(p) char *p; { if (p == NULL) { (void) fprintf(stderr, "\n%s: out of storage\n", argv0); exit(1); } return(p); } ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "alloc.c" 67 lines, 1283 characters
You can see that the error message is generated when the variable p is NULL. To determine how an argument passed to alloctest() could have been NULL, you must first identify the functions that call alloctest().
Exit the editor by using normal quit conventions. You are returned to the menu of tasks. Now type alloctest after the fourth item, Find functions calling this function.
cscope Function: Requesting a List of Functions That Call alloctest():
Text string: out of storage File Line 1 alloc.c 63(void)fprintf(stderr,"\n%s: out of storage\n",argv0); Find this C symbol: Find this global definition: Find functions called by this function: Find functions calling this function: alloctest Find this text string: Change this text string: Find this egrep pattern: Find this file: Find files #including this file:
cscope finds and lists three such functions.
cscope Function: Listing Functions That Call alloctest():
Functions calling this function: alloctest File Function Line 1 alloc.c mymalloc 33 return(alloctest(malloc((unsigned) size))); 2 alloc.c mycalloc 43 return(alloctest(calloc((unsigned) nelem, (unsigned) size))); 3 alloc.c myrealloc 53 return(alloctest(realloc(p, (unsigned) size))); Find this C symbol: Find this global definition: Find functions called by this function: Find functions calling this function: Find this text string: Change this text string: Find this egrep pattern: Find this file: Find files #including this file:
Now you want to know which functions call mymalloc(). cscope finds ten such functions. It lists nine of them on the screen and instructs you to press the space bar to see the rest of the list.
cscope Function: Listing Functions That Call mymalloc():
Functions calling this function: mymalloc File Function Line 1 alloc.c stralloc 24 return(strcpy(mymalloc (strlen(s) + 1), s)); 2 crossref.c crossref 47 symbol = (struct symbol *)mymalloc (msymbols * sizeof(struct symbol)); 3 dir.c makevpsrcdirs 63 srcdirs = (char **) mymalloc (nsrcdirs * sizeof(char*)); 4 dir.c addincdir 167 incdirs = (char **)mymalloc (sizeof(char *)); 5 dir.c addincdir 168 incnames = (char **) mymalloc(sizeof(char *)); 6 dir.c addsrcfile 439 p = (struct listitem *) mymalloc (sizeof(struct listitem)); 7 display.c dispinit 87 displine = (int *) mymalloc (mdisprefs * sizeof(int)); 8 history.c addcmd 19 h = (struct cmd *) mymalloc (sizeof(struct cmd)); 9 main.c main 212 s = mymalloc((unsigned ) (strlen(reffile) +strlen(home) + 2)); * 9 more lines - press the space bar to display more * Find this C symbol: Find this global definition: Find functions called by this function: Find functions calling this function: Find this text string: Change this text string: Find this egrep pattern: Find this file: Find files #including this file:
Because you know that the error message out of storage is generated at the beginning of the program, you can guess that the problem may have occurred in the function dispinit() (display initialization).
To view dispinit(), the seventh function on the list, type 7.
cscope Function: Viewing dispinit() in the Editor:
void dispinit() { /* calculate the maximum displayed reference lines */ lastdispline = FLDLINE - 4; mdisprefs = lastdispline - REFLINE + 1; if (mdisprefs > 9) { mdisprefs = 9; } /* allocate the displayed line array */ displine = (int *) mymalloc(mdisprefs * sizeof(int)); } ^L/* display a page of the references */ void display() { char file[PATHLEN + 1]; /* file name */ char function[PATHLEN + 1];/* function name */ char linenum[NUMLEN + 1]; /* line number */ int screenline; /* screen line number */ int width; /* source line display width */ register int i, j; "display.c" 622 lines, 14326 characters
mymalloc() failed because it was called either with a very large number or a negative number. By examining the possible values of FLDLINE and REFLINE, you can see that there are situations in which the value of mdisprefs is negative, that is, in which you are trying to call mymalloc() with a negative number.