Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/06/05:49:14
From: | Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Newsgroups: | comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: | Re: array of pointers to strings, BC++, DJGPP and weird printing behavior
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Date: | Tue, 05 Nov 1996 10:48:16 -0800
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Organization: | Alcyone Systems
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Message-ID: | <327F8BF0.1FBC68D@alcyone.com>
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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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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