Subject: Re: Need help with c!
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From: Francis Glassborow <francis AT robinton DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 19:00:01 GMT
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My compliments on actually trying to walk your code.  Howevee there are
a number of warts (such as writing void main() ) that I guess others
will point out to you.  However you have walked into a well known trap
which I highlight below:


In article <clcm-19990117-0010 AT plethora DOT net>, Mohanaraj Gopala Krishnan
<saradiya AT bigfoot DOT com> writes
>void open_file(int * pages_done, int array_size)

Would be a good idea to have this function return a suaccess/failure
indicator

>{
>        int i=0;
>
>        if((fptr=fopen("chapter.dat", "r")) !=NULL) {
>
>fseek(fptr,0L,SEEK_SET);
>
>for(i=0;i<array_size;i++) {

OK you count through from 0 to array_size
>
>fscanf(fptr,"%d",*(pages_done++));
but here we have a very nasty trap
pages_done was a pointer to an int (I guess it is to be an array)
that means *(pages_done++) evaluates to the CONTENTS of the current
address in pages_done before incrementing the address.  But if you check
fscanf you will find that it needs an address of an int.

you need to write:
fscanf(fptr,"%d", pages_done+i);

You could use the increment operator but I find the base+offset better
in this type of situation, though that is a matter of personal style.




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>}

Francis Glassborow      Chair of Association of C & C++ Users
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