[vtkusers] Segmentation fault

Goodwin Lawlor goodwin.lawlor.lists at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 09:29:06 EDT 2014


Hi Elena,

You code worked fine when

 - vtkFloatArray is used to down cast (on win32)
 - the input has normals. (as Bill asked)

I reproduced your bug when the input dataset didn't have normals... insert
a vtkPolyDataNormals filter into your code to check this out.

Goodwin


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Are you certain that the input file has Normals?
> On Apr 8, 2014 8:33 AM, "elena bresciani" <elena.bresciani87 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Here it is, I omitted the inclusion of the header files and the output
>> section
>>
>>
>>
>> int main ( int argc, char *argv[] )
>> {
>>
>>     std::string filename = argv[1];
>>
>>     // Read data from the file
>>     vtkSmartPointer<vtkXMLPolyDataReader> reader =
>> vtkSmartPointer<vtkXMLPolyDataReader>::New();
>>     reader->SetFileName(filename.c_str());
>>     reader->Update();
>>
>>     // polydata object
>>     vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData> polydata = reader->GetOutput();
>>
>>     // get normals
>>     vtkDoubleArray *pointNormalsArray = vtkDoubleArray::SafeDownCast
>> (polydata->GetPointData()->GetNormals());
>>
>>
>>     vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData> newpolydata =
>> vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData>::New();
>>     vtkSmartPointer<vtkPoints> newPoints =
>> vtkSmartPointer<vtkPoints>::New();
>>
>>     // for every point p1 in the polydata find the point p2 which lies on
>> the normal at a distance D from p1
>>
>>     for(vtkIdType i = 0; i < pointNormalsArray->GetNumberOfTuples();
>> i++)
>>
>>        {
>>             double p1[3];
>>             polydata->GetPoint(i,p1); //prendo il punto
>>
>>             double pN[3];
>>             pointNormalsArray->GetTuple(i, pN);
>>
>>             double p2[3];
>>             double D=2*atoi(argv[3]);
>>             p2[0]=p1[0]-pN[0]*D;
>>             p2[1]=p1[1]-pN[1]*D;
>>             p2[2]=p1[2]-pN[2]*D;
>>
>>
>>             vtkIdType pid[1];
>>             pid[0]=newPoints->InsertNextPoint(p2);
>>
>>         }
>>
>>         //set points to polydata
>>         newpolydata->SetPoints(newPoints);
>>
>>     return EXIT_SUCCESS;
>> }
>>
>>
>> 2014-04-08 13:58 GMT+02:00 Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Please post a small, complete, compilable example that illustrates your
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:19 AM, elena bresciani
>>> <elena.bresciani87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Thank you guys,
>>> >
>>> > I tried changing the type of PointNormalArray in vtkDoubleArray
>>> >
>>> > vtkDoubleArray *PointNormalArray = vtkDoubleArray::SafeDownCast(
>>> > polydata->GetPointData()->GetNormals() ) ;
>>> >
>>> > but I still have the segfault.
>>> >
>>> > Elena
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > 2014-04-07 19:31 GMT+02:00 Goodwin Lawlor <
>>> goodwin.lawlor.lists at gmail.com>:
>>> >
>>> >> Thanks for that link Shawn and setting me straight (I did day I could
>>> be
>>> >> wrong ;-))
>>> >>
>>> >> My logic was that if you had to do:
>>> >>
>>> >> vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData> polydata =
>>> >> vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData>::New();
>>> >>
>>> >> then initializing a smart pointer not created with the form on the RHS
>>> >> above wouldn't work...
>>> >>
>>> >> Goodwin
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Shawn Waldon <swaldon at cs.unc.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Hi Goodwin,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> It shouldn't be causing the segfault.  That line will create a new
>>> smart
>>> >>> pointer and set its internal pointer to the reader's output,
>>> incrementing
>>> >>> the reference count.
>>> >>> See
>>> >>>
>>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Tutorials/SmartPointers#Getting_an_Object_with_a_Smart_Pointer
>>> >>> for details.  If the reference increment is unnecessary, then it is
>>> still
>>> >>> only a small performance gain and not a segfault causing bug.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> My guess for the segfault is what Bill said: the normals are in a
>>> >>> vtkDoubleArray not a vtkFloatArray so SafeDownCast is returning NULL.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> HTH,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Shawn
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Goodwin Lawlor
>>> >>> <goodwin.lawlor.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Hi Elena,
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> I coud be wrong but I dont think this is correct:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>> vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData> polydata = reader->GetOutput();
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> reader->GetOutput() returns a regular pointer to a vtkPolydata not a
>>> >>>> smart pointer.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Try:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> vtkPolyData *polydata = reader->GetOutput();
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> instead.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> hth
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Goodwin
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:00 PM, elena bresciani
>>> >>>> <elena.bresciani87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Hello everybody!
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> I need your help with a segmentation fault error.
>>> >>>>> Using gdb I understood where it is generated but I don't know how
>>> to
>>> >>>>> modify the code to make it run.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Here's the portion of the code that I'm talking about:
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData> polydata = reader->GetOutput();
>>> >>>>> (the reader is a vtkXMLPolyDataReader)
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> vtkFloatArray *PointNormalArray = vtkFloatArray::SafeDownCast(
>>> >>>>> polydata->GetPointData()->GetNormals() ) ;
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> for(vtkIdType i = 0; i < PointNormalArray->GetNumberOfTuples();
>>> i++)
>>> >>>>> {....}
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> everytime I call GetNumberOfTuples I have this error so I think the
>>> >>>>> problem is on PointNormalArray.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Can somebody help me?
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Elena
>>> >>>>>
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