Hi kolpur, > Can anyone please help me in solving the problem. Yes, see below. > char *s="",t; Here you have allocated one byte of memory for s. You may be better off specifying: char t; char s[1024]; That way, the buffer s points to is on the stack, and the buffer can accommodate more input, and the buffer does not reside in what could possibly be read-only memory. > int i,j,l,c=0; > printf("\n Enter String to be Bit Stuffed : "); > scanf("%s",s); Here you are scanning into s. The s buffer is only one byte long. Depending on your compiler settings, the s buffer may be read-only (or maybe not... my C is rusty, and perhaps I'm referring to a C++ -ism). You have not taken any precautions to insure that the scanf does not overflow the buffer (out of bounds error, which could result in a SEGV). HTH, --Eljay