I think sunny meant that in IA-64 the pointer is of size 8 but here we are assigning it to int *p. So, the segfault can occur.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Sandeep Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > @Sunny: I couldn't understand how size of int & int* matter here?? > > > Regards, > Sandeep Jain > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:20 PM, sunny agrawal > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> size of pointers is equal to word size of the machine >> so on 64 bit machine size of pointer will be 8 byte while that of int is 4 >> byte >> >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Swathi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Try check if (p == NULL)... may be memory is not allocated... >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Balaji S <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> The following C program segfaults of IA-64, but works fine on IA-32. >>>> >>>> * int main() >>>> { >>>> int* p; >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> p = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int)); >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *p = 10; >>>> return 0; >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> } >>>> * >>>> >>>> Why does it happen so? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> With Regards, >>>> Balaji.S >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Algorithm Geeks" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sunny Aggrawal >> B-Tech IV year,CSI >> Indian Institute Of Technology,Roorkee >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Algorithm Geeks" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
