>> As you will notice in the sequence of steps in the illustrative code above, in line 6 a fgetc() call to file 'f' is made instead of 'f1'. This situation, a cause of segmentation fault on a non-Cygwin machine, was not encountered by Cygin's gcc compiler. In fact, the code compiles and runs successfully on Cygwin.
>>
>> Would appreciate assistance with addressing the situation.
>
> The best approach is to fix your program so that it doesn't use 'f'
> after it has been closed. It is not really related to gcc, but just
> good practice in general.
I would agree.
In this instance however I might guess that windows is reusing file handle IDs whereas others machines are not?
Your code as a complete program...
#include "stdio.h"
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
char c;
FILE * f;
f = fopen(argv[1], "r");
fclose(f);
FILE * f1;
f1 = fopen(argv[1], "r");
while ((c = fgetc(f)) != EOF){
}
}
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