On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:16:52AM +0200, Andreas Maresch wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am (re)starting in programming c (I have learned it a while ago
> under dos). Yesterday, I wrote a simple program. When compiled with
> gcc -o test test.c, no errors or warnings occured.
>
> But when I try to run, it terminates with "Segmentation fault". So,
> with the help of ddd (real nice tool ;-D ) I was able to locate the
> problem: fopen().
>
> ddd reported a seg fault on the following line:
>
> infile=fopen("dir.dat", "r");
>
> The "dir.dat" exists (in the same directory), and infile was deklared
> with: FILE *infile;
My crystal ball says you have a bounds violation in an assignment
earlier in the program, but it does not manifest itself as as Segment
Violation until fopen() attempts to allocate a FILE structure.
Remember, fopen() fails by returning a NULL pointer if it can't open the
file -- not by crashing your program (so check the return value!).
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
