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From:	John Kissell <jdk AT stargate DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: Nested structure problem (maybe)?
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Date:	Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:12:03 -0700
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To update all who read or replied...

	Using 'assert' as George Foot suggested, I found that the FILE_TYPE
structure was created as a singlely linked list when the ParseFile()
function expected the structure to be a circular linked list (ie.
last_record->next = NULL   vs.   last_record->next = first_record). Yes,
just a stupid mistake, but a lesson that debuggers wont allways catch
mistakes involving a loop where all iterations but one (the last in this
case) are valid.

Thanks,
John Kissell



 

John Kissell wrote:
> 
> The following is a snippet from a 'C' file that contains many long and
> nested structures. By nested, a main structure 'OBJECT_TYPE *list'
> contains pointers to other structures which contain pointers to lesser
> structures and so on. It compiles and links with no errors *or warnings*
> but I get a SIGSEGV at the 'p=record->text;' line. The rub is that Rhide
> in 'run to cursor' and then debug shows that record->text contains a
> valid string of type char, and in fact, the correct string in the
> correct place for the file that was read in as a test of the code! But
> the program when run unhindered under Rhide stops with a SIGSEGV at the
> 'p = record->text;' line? 


> <snip>
> 
> int ParseFile(OBJECT_TYPE *list)
> { char command[6][2] = {"Z","X","K","I","T","G"},
>        *p,*p1,*p2,tmp[256],tmp2[256];
>   int n,G;
>   double CX=0,CY=0,CI=0,CJ=0,X=0,Y=0,I=0,J=0,arc,start,inc,r;
>   RECORD_TYPE *record;
>   OBJECT_TYPE *graph_win;
> 
>   graph_win=TagSearch(list,GRAPH_WIN); /* in debug this points to the
> correct data */
>   record=graph_win->file->records;     /* this also */
>   vflag.max=vflag.graph=0;             /* and this */
>   view_count=0;                        /* I'll get rid of this global
> eventually */
> 
>   do{
>   X=CX; Y=CY;
>   vflag.park = 0;                       /* this one too */
>   p = record->text; /******* SIGSEGV first flagged here ******/
>   p1 = tmp;         /* Run to cursor at the *end* of this line and then
> debug in Rhide shows that record->text contains exactly what it is
> supposed to?
>

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