-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Gloria Muñoz wrote: | Hi all! | | First of all hello everybody! because I've just joined | the list. I've had a lok into the Mailing list archive and I've seen | that this error has happened before to other people but each time the | solution was different and I haven't found the answer to my specific | case so here we go! | | | I'm just trying to read a .data file and create a .xls file to use | with excel; for that I've created the next simple program: | | #include <stdio.h> | | main (int argc, char* argv[]) | { | FILE *f1, *f2; | | | char *file_name; | int num_compressors = 0; | int num_files = 0; | int numC = 0; | char *out_file; | char *aux; | char *ctime; | | if(argc != 2) | { | fprintf(stderr, "Use: %s nameOfFile\n", argv[0]); | | exit(1); | } | | // Open source file | if ((f1 = fopen(argv[1],"r")) == NULL){ | fprintf(stderr, "Can't open %s\n", argv[1]); | exit(1); | } | | fprintf(stderr, "%s opened\n", argv[1]); | | | fscanf(f1,"%d",&num_compressors | ); | fprintf(stderr, "Number of compressors: %d\n", num_compressors); | fscanf(f1,"%d",&num_files); | fprintf(stderr, "Number of files: %d\n", num_files); | | | do{ | // THE PROBLEM SEEMS TO BEGIN HERE | fscanf(f1,"%s",out_file); You have forgotten to allocate some memory for your out_file buffer.
| fprintf(stderr, "Name of compressor: %s\n", out_file); | | out_file = strcat(out_file, ".xls"); | fprintf(stderr, "Read name of the new file: %s\n", out_file); | // Create new .xls file | f2 = fopen (out_file, "w"); | | if (f2==NULL){ | fprintf(stderr, "Can't open %s\n", out_file); | exit(1); | } | | fscanf(f1,"%s",file_name); | fprintf(f2, "%s\t", file_name); | | fscanf(f1,"%s %s", aux, ctime); | fprintf(f2, "%s\t", ctime); | numC++; | }while (numC < num_compressors); | | fclose(f1); | fclose(f2); | | | } | | | The test .data file is called pruExcel.data and consist of: | | 1 | 1 | | gzip | | to_mm_24.bin | | real 0m0.614s | user 0m0.499s | sys 0m0.015s | | | And the output : | | | $ ./oExcel pruExcel.data | pruExcel.data opened | Number of compressors: 1 | Number of files: 1 | 7 [main] oExcel 2988 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while dumping state | (probably corrupted stack) | Segmentation fault (core dumped) | | I'm working with Windows XP and CYGWIN_NT-5.1, | | any idea would be appreciated! | Thanks! | - -- VH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkgkEggACgkQjksRtmO2spfl3QCfVOjGhbVuHPDpXJJd6FT2uWq7 aCQAn3CMeGWSoU+Pn56mx4qsAnZCx84z =1ql3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/