I wrote a simple test routine:
for(int i = 0; i < 100;++i)
{
std::cout<< "i="<< i <<": ";
print_complex(lapack_make_complex_double(1,0));
std::cout<< std::endl;
}
where print_complex prints the complex to console.The routine will end with an exception:
First-chance exception at 0x00420fd0 in LTELinkLevelSimulator.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
Unhandled exception at 0x770b15de in LTELinkLevelSimulator.exe:0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
and the printed complexes on the console are:
See, something goes wrong. The complex should be 1+0j, but the lapack_make_complex_double function, which is a C interface to create a complex with double precision, is not stable.
I have to write my own make_complex routine instead. It looks like:
lapack_complex_double make_complex(constdouble a, const double b)
{
lapack_complex_double c;
c.real = a;
c.imag = b;
return c;
}
If replace the lapack_make_complex_double with make_complex, the output is:
No error happens again!
One last word, when using the CBLAS and LAPACKE library in your C/C++ code, be very careful of such flaws.