Hi Ho!
--- On Thu, 6/12/08, Vardhan, Sundara (GE Infra, Energy) <sundara.vardhan@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am calling a function x within strcpy as follows
>
> strcpy(a,x("sample text","default text"));
>
> x is defined as follows
>
> char * x(char *m, char *n)
> {
> char *return_val=NULL;
> if (check m is in database)
> return_val=m;
> else
> return_val=n;
> return(return_val);
> }
> This causes the array a to have a corrupted string. The string is either m or n but with illegal characters appended.
> So I tried the following
> char *temp=NULL
> temp=x("sample text","default text");
> strcpy(a,temp);
>
>
> When I printed temp, it looked file, but when I printed a it was garbled. I had initialized as a[0]='\0';
>
> The same program works fine in Sun and IBM. Is there anything in GCC that I need to use as flag to have this not occur?
> Any help or pointers will be greatly appreciated.
It looks like that you have not zeroed your `a'.
`a[0]='\0';' is not enough.
Either you do `char a[BUFFER_SIZE] = {0};' when defining `a' or, better, you do `memset(a, 0, BUFFER_SIZE);'
> Thanks in advance
Your welcome.
> With Regards
>
> Vardhan
Best regards,
Eus
