On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 03:45:55 -0800, "davidturetsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
crying out from somewhere
about: Re: Segmentation fault
davidturetsky> It looks as though I was running into problems when trying to
scan an input
davidturetsky> file using c notation which is less efficient of memory, so I'm
in the
davidturetsky> process of revising all of the I/O to use c++ resources. Still,
it comes as
davidturetsky> a surprise, but I'm very early on the gcc learning curve
Reading this I am wondering if you actually did allocate memory for the
variables, or even did you do the right thing?
for example, getting input for a double with scanf will require you doing
something like
double a;
scanf("%g", &a);
You can even do double a; scanf("%g", a); and it might still work on MS
compiler, it won't on gcc.
That was my personal experience migrating my own code.
I found many invalid pointers in my code.
MSC seems to be very "relaxed" in handling invalid pointers.
Linux is very harsh and kills your app with a segfault as soon as you try to
access it.
For example, this code segfaults on Linux, which used to work perfectly fine on
MSC:
char * bitsofmemory = malloc (BIG_SIZE); FILE*f =fopen(FILENAME, ATTRIBUTE);
if (!(bitsofmemory && f)) {
free(bitsofmemory); fclose(f) /* try to clean up and it dies...*/
return ERROR;
}
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