To:	dano AT dynaguy DOT demon DOT nl
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: trouble compiling
Message-ID:	<19980629.110718.7759.0.zixyer@juno.com>
References:	<6n749v$sqr$1 AT fir DOT prod DOT itd DOT earthlink DOT net>
	<899120399 DOT 11131 DOT 0 DOT spot DOT c3ade179 AT news DOT demon DOT nl>
From:	zixyer AT juno DOT com (Zixyer S Qwerty)
Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:05:29 EDT

On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:34:49 +0200 "Daniel Fauré" <dano AT dynaguy DOT demon DOT nl>
writes:
>>
>>int main()
>>{
>>
>>    allegro_init();
>>    set_color_depth(8);
>>    set_gfx_mode(GFX_AUTODETECT, 640, 480, 0, 0);
>>    text_mode(0);
>>    char *c;
>>    int p;
>>    p=3;
>>    itoa(p, c, 10);  // call frame traceback here
>>
>>    textout(screen, FONT, c, 10, 10, 15); // parse error  before ',' 
>here
>>}
>
>Well... this should be quite obvious, FONT should be font, FONT is the
>struct, used to declare for example the default "font". As for the 
>other
>error... I don't get it. This piece of code compiles fine, then 
>displays "3"
>and returns to my IDE without too much trouble. Sorry, can't help you 
>there.
>
>Daniel Faure
>
it should be obvious what the problem is here, c is never initialized, so
it's pointing to some random place (since it's an automatic variable). 
generally in protected mode, any efforts to write to c would result in a
crash.

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