From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: More string problems!
Date: 29 Aug 1997 08:16:04 GMT
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Weizhong Jiang (wj13 AT cornell DOT edu) writes:
> Kevin Dickerson wrote:
>> 
>> main()
>> {
>>    int l1;
>>    char *chr, *buf, *text;
> 
> chr, buf and text are uninitialized pointers. since they have automatic
> scope in this case, they may be pointing anywhere. what is worse, you
> have not claimed the memory they are pointing to, so it writing to those
> areas can do anything from just what you expected to eating your hard
> drive alive.

Not in protected mode. :-) You might get erratic results, what you
expected, or it might seg out, but only in real mode could it trash your
disk FATs.


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