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<p>I am writing a DSP extern that can have a any number of outlets
depending on the creation arguments (like [fexpr~], e.g.). In
order to interact with the outlets in the <tt>XXX_tilde_perform</tt>
loop, I made a member of my <tt>t_XXX_tilde</tt> data structure
thus:</p>
<p><tt>t_sample **lcl_outs;</tt></p>
<p>Then, when I know how many outlets I need, I allocate the
appropriate amount of memory. In the<tt> XXX_tilde_perform</tt>
loop, I set the pointers to those handed by Pd's scheduling engine
in the standard way:</p>
<p><tt>for(int i=0;i<x->nouts;i++)</tt></p>
<p><tt> x->lcl_outs[i] = w[2+i];</tt></p>
<p>I found that this would sporadically crash Pd when turning the
DSP engine on and off and (sometimes) when
connecting/disconnecting to one of the outlets. I think that I
have solved this problem by copying my pointers at the head of the
<tt>XXX_tilde_perform</tt> method to a local variable:</p>
<p><tt>t_sample **lcl_outs = x->lcl_outs;</tt></p>
<p><tt>for(int i=0;i<x->nouts;i++)</tt></p>
<tt>
</tt>
<p><tt> lcl_outs[i] = w[2+i];</tt></p>
<p>Everything <i>appears</i> to work now. I assume that somehow
Pd's engine is rubbing my <tt>x->lcl_outs</tt> ptr off of the
stack. Thus, by copying it to another ptr I avoid this problem
because my OS still knows where the allocated memory is. That is
to say, when Pd gets rid of whatever<tt> w[2] </tt>is, it then
removes the ptr <tt>lcl_outs</tt>, not <tt>x->lcl_outs</tt>,
which still has memory behind it.<br>
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<p>Am I reading this right? I am not at all confident that I have
truly solved this problem. If anyone has any insight, I'd like to
know too.<br>
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<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>David<br>
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