An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred

[erictham115]

Hi i am a novice in C++ programming and encountered the following
problem without headway - a popout appeared after successful
compilation and linking with:
"An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException'
occurred in rational.exe
Additional information: Object reference not set to an instance of an
object."

On pressing break, the code stopped at the fract[0] which is a private
class Rational member:

int* rational::setrational(int n, int d)
{
div_t div_result;
const int size = 3;
if (n > d )
{
div_result = div(n,d);
fract[0]= div_result.quot; --> code execution stopped here
fract[1]= div_result.rem;
fract[2]= d;
}
else
{
fract[0]= 0; <---- or here.
fract[1]= n;
fract[2]= d;

};

return fract;

Can anyone help? thanks

[Ian]

er*********@gmail.com wrote:

Hi i am a novice in C++ programming and encountered the following
problem without headway - a popout appeared after successful
compilation and linking with:
"An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException'
occurred in rational.exe
Additional information: Object reference not set to an instance of an
object."

On pressing break, the code stopped at the fract[0] which is a private
class Rational member:

Does the array fract exist? Has it been initialised, or simply declared?

Ian

[John Harrison]

er*********@gmail.com wrote:

Hi i am a novice in C++ programming and encountered the following
problem without headway - a popout appeared after successful
compilation and linking with:
"An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException'
occurred in rational.exe
Additional information: Object reference not set to an instance of an
object."

On pressing break, the code stopped at the fract[0] which is a private
class Rational member:

int* rational::setrational(int n, int d)
{
div_t div_result;
const int size = 3;
if (n > d )
{
div_result = div(n,d);
fract[0]= div_result.quot; --> code execution stopped here
fract[1]= div_result.rem;
fract[2]= d;
}
else
{
fract[0]= 0; <---- or here.
fract[1]= n;
fract[2]= d;

};

return fract;

Can anyone help? thanks

Presumably fract is a null pointer. How it got to be a null pointer and
what it should be instead is impossible to tell from the code posted.

john

[Acken]

Thanks John & Ian. Will follow your suggestion to check on the code...