/******************************************************************** * Andrei Florea - CST 116 - Chapter 9 - Debugging & Functions * * Chapter 9 Questions & Answers (it didn't specify which questions, so I'm assuming all?) * How does a computer know where to go back to? * - It knows because of a parameter that is called the return address, which lets the computer know * where to go back to after executing the function. * * How does it maintain the state of all variables when a function is called? * - The state of all variables is saved before a function call, and when creating a function, * you can decide whether you want to pass the parameters as reference ( reference to the memory location ) * or passing the value of the variable which both can alter the original values, but they differ on how. * Passing by reference, any manipulation inside the function to the given parameter variables will alter it, * but if its passed by value, it has to return the variable(s), as it creates a copy of the original variables. * * * File: CST116-Ch9-Debugging.cpp * * General Instructions: Complete each step before proceeding to the * next. * * Debugging Exercise 1 * * 1) Insert a breakpoint on the lines indicated in the code. * 2) Run to Breakpoint 1. * 3) Place a watch on age and days. * 4) Add another watch using &age for the name. This will display * the address of age. * 5) Write down the address of age. * * 0x000000016dd67838 * * 6) Step Into the code for the function GetAge. * 7) The execution continues to the function header for GetAge. * 8) Step into one more time. * 9) Why did the address of age and value change? * * The address of age and its value changed because we entered a function, where it initialized * a new variable with the same name, and gave it a different value. It is not overwriting the * original age variable, it is instead creating a new variable. * * 10) Step over the cout and cin statements. * 11) Verify the value entered is stored properly in age. * 12) Step into until the flow returns to main. * 13) Step over one more time. * 14) Why didn't the value entered get transferred back to main? * * The value entered didn't get transferred back to main because we are not * storing the return value of GetAge() to the variable age. * * 15) Stop debugging and fix the error. * 16) Run to Breakpoint 1. * 17) Step over the function call to GetAge. * 18) Verify that the value entered was returned and stored * correctly from GetAge. * 19) Stop debugging. * * Done. * * Debugging Exercise 2 * * 1) Run to Breakpoint 1. * 2) Step over the call to GetAge. * 3) Step into CalcDays. * 4) Step into one more time so that the current line is the * calculation. * 5) Why is age greyed out in your watch window? * * I believe age is greyed out in my watch window because we are not using the variable age to * calculate the amount of days. It is now using the newly initialized variable in the parameter of * CalcDays() which is "int years". So instead of age, I have years in my watch window. * * 6) Stop debugging. * * Debugging Exercise 3 * * 1) Run to Breakpoint 2. * 2) When asked, enter the value of 20 for your age. * 3) Verify that the variable age is 20 and the variable days * is 7300. * * Verified. * * 4) Step into the PrintResults function. * 5) Age is 7300? Not even Ralph is that old. * 6) Why did the values for both variables change? * * The values changed because of the function call with the argument order. The function is defined * with the parameters in the order of (int days, int age). While the function call is calling * with the arguments of the variables in the order of (age, days). * * 7) Stop debugging and fix the error. * * Debugging Exercise 4 * * 1) Run to Breakpoint 2. * 2) Display your Call Stack window. * 3) View the contents of the window and notice that the top * function on the stack is main. * 4) Step into the PrintResults function. * 5) Notice that the call stack now shows PrintResults on top of * the stack. * * Done. * ********************************************************************/ #include using std::cout; using std::cin; using std::endl; const int DAYS_PER_YEAR = 365; int GetAge(); int CalcDays(int age); void PrintResults(int age, int days); int main() { int age = 0; int days = 0; // Breakpoint 1 // Put breakpoint on the following line age = GetAge(); days = CalcDays(age); // Breakpoint 2 // Put breakpoint on the following line PrintResults(days, age); return 0; } int GetAge() { int age; cout << "Please enter your age: "; cin >> age; return age; } int CalcDays(int years) { int days; days = years * DAYS_PER_YEAR; return days; } void PrintResults(int days, int age) { cout << age << "! Boy are you old!\n"; cout << "Did you know that you are at least " << days << " days old?\n\n"; }