The function will not behave as expected because of a bug within findMax's parameters.
computer science
Description
The function will not behave as
expected because of a bug within findMax's parameters. The argument: int*
pToMax, creates a local copy of the pointer passed to findMax. Because findMax
is of return type void, the function returns nothing. Any changes made to
pToMax are also deleted when the function returns. To fix this, I would change
the argument to be passed by reference instead of value like so:
void findMax(int arr[], int n, int* &pToMax)
1c)
The main function has a problem in
that a pointer is declared but not initialized to any memory address. As a
result, a compilation error arises when computeCube is called with ptr as an
argument. To fix this, I declared an int var and initialized it to some
arbitrary value. I then assigned ptr to the address of var.
My solution:
int main()
{
int var
= 0;
int*
ptr = &var;
computeCube(5,
ptr);
cout
<< "Five cubed is " << *ptr << endl;
}
1d)
The
implementation of strequal causes it to run into problems when comparing str1
and str2. Instead of comparing the
characters at the memory addresses that str1 and str2 currently point to, the
while condition only compares the memory addresses. The if statement and return
condition also run into the same problem. To fix this, I dereferenced the
pointers with a * character whenever str1 and str2 were compared.
