From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: gettextinfo(), cprintf() question
Date:	Wed, 05 Mar 1997 09:22:51 -0800
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Michael Phelps wrote:

> Unless you are using C++, you need to declare this as
>         struct text_info *foo;
    ...
> My guess is that you want to call function gettextinfo like so:
>         gettextinfo(foo);

This will cause a crash, since foo is not pointing to anything.

Try:

    struct text_info foo;
    gettextinfo(&foo);

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