From:	snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com (Mark E.)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP specific strcpy() error
Date:	Sat, 26 Jun 1999 22:41:45 GMT
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I1269U <i1269u AT my-deja DOT com> wrote:

>main() {
>    RECORD *testing;
>
>    /* Structured this way for readability */
>    /* Simulated input from user */
>    char ssn[10] = "123456789";

>    strcpy(testing->ssn, ssn);

At least in your sample code, 'testing' is pointing to unallocated mrmory. 

Try adding:
testing = malloc(sizeof(RECORD))

and at the end of your sample code:
free(testing)


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