Why won't this work?

tetesuro 2004-10-10 11:47:06 ET #include <stdio.h> int main() { char *cstring; FILE *fp; fp = fopen( "proc.rc", "r" ); fscanf(fp,"%s", cstring); printf("%s", cstring); return 0; } It works on Utopia (Sun OS 5.7) and on Saturn (Linux 2.6.7) but it seg faults on artoo (FreeBSD 4.10) and on arcadia (NetBSD 1.6.1) WTF?!

m0xie 2004-10-10 12:08:10 ET You never assign anything to *cstring. It is an uninitialized pointer. You need to allocate space that *cstring can then point to, either by defining it as a character array instead, or using dynamic memory management (malloc/free). That it is working on any system is a fluke.

tetesuro 2004-10-10 12:45:18 ET That's almost what I thought! Thank's alot Moxie.

tetesuro 2004-10-10 12:54:00 ET ...and yes, it works when the char is intialized as an array.

m0xie 2004-10-10 14:06:21 ET I'm glad to help. :)

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