From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: why don't this work
Date: 17 Mar 1998 13:12:10 GMT
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Nate Eldredge (eldredge AT ap DOT net) wrote:
> At 05:17  3/12/1998 GMT, A. Jans-Beken wrote:
> >shifter wrote:

> >> char *password;
> >OOPS----^^^^^^^^
> >password is a pointer but points to nothing.
> >char *password = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"; works...
> No it won't! You may get away with it on DJGPP,

I even doubt that, but haven't checked it.

> but on most systems a string constant will be read-only. Setting a
> pointer to point to a constant and then writing into it will get you
> only a nice message saying "Segmentation fault".

So, change it to:
char password[] = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";

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