496 - Simply Subsets

[jbernadas]

Hi everybody. Can someone check the input for this problem. I submitted this code to the new server:

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#include "stdio.h"

int main() {
  static char buffer[1000000];
  int cnt = 0;
  while (fgets(buffer, 1000000, stdin) != NULL)
    +cnt;
  if (cnt % 2 != 0) {
    char* c = NULL;
    *c = '\0';
  }
  return 0;
}

and the server returned Runtime Error. Unless I made a mistake, I think that the input file have an odd number of lines, while the problem statement says that it should have an even number of lines.

Thanks.

[chunyi81]

Hi,

Check this part of your code:

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    char* c = NULL; 
    *c = '\0'; 

You declared a char pointer c pointing to NULL. Then the next line deferences c (pointing to NULL) and this will give a runtime error.

Hope this helps.

[hi!man!]

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    char* c = NULL; 
    *c = '\0'; 

No, that is not the reason.
*c is not pointer, it is a variable.

Change the code

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#include "stdio.h"
int main() {
  static char buffer[1000000];
  int cnt = 0;
  while (fgets(buffer, 1000000, stdin) != NULL)
    +cnt;
  if (cnt % 2 != 0) {
    char* c = NULL;
    *c = '\0';
  }
  return 0;
}

to this:

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#include "stdio.h"
static char buffer[1000000];
int main() {
  int cnt = 0;
  while (fgets(buffer, 1000000, stdin) != NULL)
    +cnt;
  if (cnt % 2 != 0) {
    char* c = NULL;
    *c = '\0';
  }
  return 0;
} 

should get rid of RE.

[mf]

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char* c = NULL;
*c = '\0';

No, that is not the reason.
*c is not pointer, it is a variable.

It's not a variable. it's an lvalue. It's something at address 0, which in almost all OSes you usually can neither read nor write, so that code causes a runtime error.

But you both miss the main point of jbernadas' code - his program crashes whenever the input contains an odd number of lines. And according to the problem statement, "Your program should accept an even number of lines of text."
So there must something wrong with the input file, or new server. Or maybe his buffer sizes are just too small.

[jbernadas]

So there must something wrong with the input file, or new server. Or maybe his buffer sizes are just too small.

I doubt it is my buffer size, I use the same size in my AC program.

[Carlos]

shouldn't it be

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++cnt;

instead of

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+cnt;

?

[Carlos]

Input contains an even number of lines, so the topic is closed.