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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:57:57 -0600 (CST)
From: Mumit Khan <khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU>
To: Jamie Guinan <guinan@bluebutton.com>
cc: Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Segfault when call kernel32 function 
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Jamie Guinan wrote:

> Ah!  Got it working now.  When I first tried your suggestion I 
> mistakenly used
> 
>   static const char mode_str[128] = "9600,N,8,1";
>          ^^^^^
> 
> instead of 
> 
>   static char mode_str[128] = "9600,N,8,1";

Yup, the 'const' pretty much kills the reason for making it a writable
buffer ;-)

Glad it worked. Feel free to send a bug report to the OS vendor. I bet
it's going to be fixes as soon as MSVC starts supporting putting const
strings in readonly memory (or perhaps that's *why* MSVC doesn't do it
yet).

Regards,
Mumit



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