Sorry, forgot to provide gdb output in my message: Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x00000001000990e8 0x00007fffffe007c5 in __memcpy () The address 0x00000001000990e8 is the start address of the buffer, i.e. the initial value of m_write_ptr. The output of where is: (gdb) where #0 0x00007fffffe007c5 in __memcpy () #1 0x0000000100002e64 in SharedMemoryBufferMock<int>::write (this=0x7fff5fbff7d0, item_ptr=0x7fff5fbff828) at SharedMemoryBufferMock.hpp:93 #2 0x0000000100000c7e in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fff5fbff868) at ../main.cpp:27 I am running this on a MAC with snow Leopard, could that have something to do with this? Thanks, C On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Cuneyt Taskiran wrote:

Hi,

I want to create a buffer in shared memory and have modified the example code provided in Boost.Interprocess to get the following class:

template<typename ItemType> class SharedMemoryBufferMock { private:     ItemType*        m_data;            // array of ItemType items     ItemType*        m_read_ptr;        // points to next buffer location to be read from     ItemType*        m_write_ptr;        // points to next buffer location to be written to     std::string     m_segmentName;    // unique name for the memory segment that holds the buffer object     std::string     m_objectName;     // unique name for the buffer object     unsigned long    m_nItems;     unsigned long    m_capacity; public:     SharedMemoryBufferMock( unsigned long maxItemCount );     virtual ~SharedMemoryBufferMock();

    unsigned long     capacity()     { return m_capacity; }     unsigned long     size()        { return m_nItems; }     bool             isFull()    { return m_nItems == m_capacity; }     bool            isEmpty()    { return m_nItems == 0; }

    ItemType*         read();     void             write( ItemType* item_ptr); };

/*  * Implementation of the templated methods.  */ template<typename ItemType>SharedMemoryBufferMock<ItemType>::SharedMemoryBufferMock( unsigned long maxItemCount ) {        if( maxItemCount == 0 ) {                std::cerr << "Buffer cannot be created with a capacity of zero!" << std::endl;                exit(1);        }

       // Create unique name for memory segment using PID of current process.        std::stringstream pid_str;        pid_str << "BufferMemorySegment_" << getpid();        m_segmentName = pid_str.str();        pid_str.str("");        pid_str << "BufferMemoryObject_" << getpid();        m_objectName  = pid_str.str();

       boost::interprocess::shared_memory_object::remove(m_segmentName.c_str());

       m_capacity = maxItemCount;

       // Create a new segment with given name and size        boost::interprocess::managed_shared_memory segment( boost::interprocess::create_only,                                                                                                                m_segmentName.c_str(),                                                                                                                //memSize                                                                                                                65536                                                                                                                );

       // Create the buffer data object with specified item capacity.        m_data = segment.construct<ItemType>                                                                                ( m_objectName.c_str() )        // name of the object                                                                                [maxItemCount]                          // number of items                                                                                (ItemType());                           // ctor for elements

       // Initialize read and write locations.        m_write_ptr = m_read_ptr = m_data; }

template<typename ItemType> void SharedMemoryBufferMock<ItemType>::write( ItemType* item_ptr ) {        if( isFull() ) {                std::cerr << "Cannot write to buffer, it's full. Read one or more elements first!" << std::endl;                exit(1);        }        std::memcpy( m_write_ptr, item_ptr, sizeof(ItemType) );        m_write_ptr++;        m_nItems++; }

When I test the code using the following:                SharedMemoryBufferMock<int> sharedBuf(100);                for( int i = 0; i < 10; i++ ) {                        cout << "writing " << i << endl;                        sharedBuf.write( &i );                }

I get a segmentation fault at the memcpy step. I've been at this for a couple of hours now and cannot see what I'm doing wrong. Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

C