From: James W Sager Iii <sager+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: ? Functions recieving strings?
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:40:48 -0500
Organization: Junior, MCS Undeclared, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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I'm having a serious trouble in programming.
I'm passing a string to a function and the function isn't
always getting the correct string...
 
 
Ie (Not exact example):
#include "iostream.h"
void function1(char *my_string);
void function2(char my_string[]);
 
void function1(char *my_string)
{
cout<<mystring<<endl;
}
 
void function2(char my_string[])
{
cout<<mystring<<endl;
}
 
void main(void)
{
function1("Print me");
function2("Print me too");
}
 
 
And instead of getting 
Print me
Print me too
I'd get something random like
Hello.
PCX
 
Now that isn't the exact example. The code I have is too complex to post
as its over 100k in length.  I thought it was just a problem with
turbo c, but I have hit these errors with Djgpp too.  I'm exasperated
as I just want my functions to recieve the correct values so I can
finish my game in a few days...  My only guess is that there is a
pointer error or something elsewhere in the code.  Any suggestions
how I would go about tracking down the problem would be more than 
appreciated.