On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Chuck Reed wrote: >Ok, I've looked around for sprintf statements overflowing bufs but couldn't >find any. However, this darned memory crash keeps on happening. This is >the latest gdb output i've gotten: It could also be strcpy, strcat, etc and over/under writing to an array. >171 int main(int argc, char **argv) >172 { >173 char buf[512]; > >Does this mean that the global 'buf' has been overrun somewhere? No, that is a private 'buf', and GDB is fairly useless on memory overruns. (Unless you go printing the private malloc structures to see what was overwritten and what is there now.) -- George Greer - Me@Null.net | Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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