[Help-gsl] gsl_vector memory management help

[Noel du Toit]

Hello, 

I have two classes: myClass_t and myMember_t. The myClass_t has a member 
variable of type myMember_t (called member). The myMember_t has a member of 
type gsl_vector* (called v), for which memory gets allocated in the myMember_t 
constructor, and the memory is freed in the myMember_t destructor.

I want to assign the some other variable of type myMember_t (called mM) to the 
myMember_t member in myClass_t, so I wrote an assignment operator for 
myMember_t  to copy the elements of the gsl_vector.

My problem is that when I call the assignment operator directly everything 
works ok, but this requires public variables. However, when I write a mutator 
function for myClass_t (called setMember):
1) the variable that I pass in (mM) gets corrupted, even though the myClass_t 
member get correctly updated
2) the local variable mM cannot be de-allocated.

I am pretty new to C++, but as far as I can tell the memory allocation is 
correct, so I think it is my lack of understanding of the memory management on 
gsl_vector side that is causing this (hence the email to this list). Any help 
will be appreciated. Attached is the source code that I use, with the compile 
command at the top of the file.

Thanks,
Noel

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