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From: "Dean Limbaugh" <edl AT ns1 DOT co DOT alachua DOT fl DOT us>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
References: <930735428 DOT 887115 AT kyle DOT inet DOT net DOT nz>
Subject: Re: Files with GCC
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:20:49 -0400
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

should be fscanf(objFile,"%d",&points);

your trying to use the value in points as a poiter to the location to store
the value. This is probally 0
----- Original Message -----
From: David Mitchell <dmitchell AT inet DOT net DOT nz>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 5:22 AM
Subject: Files with GCC


> Could somebody tell me what is wrong with this code?
>
> int points;
> FILE *objFile;
>
> objFile = fopen(fname, "rt");
>
> fscanf(objFile, "%d", points);
>
> When I run this, my program crashes with this message:
>
> Exiting due to signal SIGSEG
> Page fault at eip=00005df6, error=0006
> eax=00000001 ebx=00066ac0 ecx=00066900 edx=001a41a0 esi=00001bcc
> edi=00000037
> ebp=00066a30 esp=000669b0 program=D:\DAVID\OBJ\A.EXE
> cs: sel=00a7  base=82dae000  limit=0007ffff
> ds: sel=00af  base=82dae000  limit=ffffffff
> es: sel=00af  base=82dae000  limit=ffffffff
> fs: sel=0087  base=0001c0a0  limit=0000ffff
> gs: sel=00bf  base=00000000  limit=ffffffff
> ss: sel=00af  base=82dae000  limit=ffffffff
>
> Call frame traceback EIPs:
>   0x00005df6
>   0x0000597a
>   0x00005743
>   0x00002b86
>   0x00001cbf
>   0x00002092
>   0x0000261a
>
> What's wrong?  Sorry if this is a bit vague.
>
> David
>
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