Question

Good afternoon, We are trying to build a prototype of Memory Mapped File Caching program for use by Windows and Linux 32 bit applications. Every time we run the prototype we get an Error 487(Error Invalid Address) when we try call UnMapViewOfFile to unmap a a cached memory mapped file region. We think this is happening because we trying a unmap a previouslu unmapped region. We were wondering if it is possible to ignore this error message.

We try our best to make sure that every call to MapViewOfFile is matched by an UnMapViewOfFile in the following way, Every time we call MapViewOfFile , we use the following code:

std::deque<Range> ranges_type;

std::multimap<char *,Range> mmultimap;

MapPtr = (char*)::MapViewOfFile(hMapping,
                                FILE_MAP_WRITE | FILE_MAP_READ,
                                0, baseoff,
                                mappedlength);
if (MapPtr == 0){
    DWORD lasterr = GetLastError();
    ErrorMessage(lasterr);
}

ranges_type.insert(RangeDeque::value_type(
                       PreviousNCopy,
                       PreviousN,
                       adjustedptr + n,
                       MapPtr,
                       TimeStamp,
                       mappedlength));

mmultimap.insert(RangeMultiMap::value_type(
                     MapPtr,
                     Range(PreviousNCopy,
                           PreviousN,
                           adjustedptr + n,
                           MapPtr,
                           TimeStamp,
                           mappedlength)));

Everytime we unmap a memory mapped file region, we use the following excerpt:

typedef std::multimap<char *,Range>::const_iterator I;
numerased = 0;
std::pair<I,I> b = mmultimap.equal_range(TmpPrevMapPtr);
for (I i=b.first; i != b.second; ++i){ 
    std::dequeue<Range>::iterator iter;
    iter = std::lower_bound(ranges_type.begin(),
                            ranges_type.end(),
                            i->second);
    if (iter != ranges_type.end() && !(i->second < *iter)){
        ranges_type.erase(iter);
        numerased++;
    }
}

erasecount = mmultimap.erase(TmpPrevMapPtr);
retval = UnmapViewOfFile(TmpPrevMapPtr);
if (retval == 0){
    DWORD lasterr = GetLastError();
    ErrorMessage(lasterr);
}

The class Range looks like this:

class Range {
public:
    explicit Range(int item){
        mLow = item;
        mHigh = item;
        mPtr  = 0;
        mMapPtr = 0;
        mStamp = 0;
        mMappedLength = 0;
    }
    Range(int low, int high, char* ptr = 0,char* mapptr = 0, int stamp = 0, int currMappedLength = 0){
        mLow = low;
        mHigh = high;
        mPtr  = ptr;
        mMapPtr = mapptr;
        mStamp = stamp;
        mMappedLength = currMappedLength;
    }

    Range(const Range& r):

    bool operator==(const Range& rhs) const{
        return (mLow <= rhs.mLow && mHigh >= rhs.mHigh);
    }
    bool operator<(const Range& rhs) const{
        return mHigh < rhs.mHigh;      
    } 

public:
    int mLow;   
    int mHigh; 
    char* mPtr;
    char* mMapPtr;
    int mStamp;
    int mMappedLength;
}; // class Range 

Thank you for reading this post.

Answer 1

we trying a unmap a previouslu unmapped region

That is a bug, period. You “ignore” the error by fixing the bug.

Alternately, just ignore it with an if test. The Win32 function is telling you there’s a bug to fix, but if you want to ignore what it’s telling you of course nobody is going to prevent you from doing so.