Re: [CODE] Crashing

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 04/01/98


On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Fili wrote:

>Suggestion:
>
>peter hartman wrote:
>>   char buf[MAX_STRING_LENGTH];
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Change to char *buf;
>
>That should add some length to the string.

No, that'll cause a crash because you haven't allocated any memory for the
'char *buf;'.  You'd have to do:

char *buf = (char *)malloc(the_size_here);

But by then there is little point to do that instead of using the stack
because you may forget to free() the char *.

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