From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: array of pointers to strings, BC++, DJGPP and weird printing behavior
Date:	Tue, 05 Nov 1996 10:48:16 -0800
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Matthew Miller wrote:

> I have got the array of pointers to strings concept down,
> but now (I think) something weird is happening.  This code
> snippet (along w/ a main function) compiles without errors
> on both BC++ 3.1 and DJGPP. But, the executables don't act
> the same.  With DJGPP, running the exe. produces an endless loop
> of seg. faults. Also, the file that is opened is just a plain
> text file containing one word per line

Your problem is that you are not properly reallocating the array of char *
as you're intending.  Your realloc call always resizes the array to be one
char * long, when you need it to be constantly growing.

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