:) Indeed. I wasn't diagnosing the logic mistakes. Brian On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:14 PM, John Fine <johnsfine@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That explains the compile error, but just fixing that, such as putting the > sizeof() expressions in temporary variables, still leaves the bug, just > hidden from the compiler. > > Those two address of size parameters refer to the filled size of the input > buffer and capacity of the output buffer. sizeof(pointer) is just the > number of bytes the pointer itself occupies. It says nothing about the > usage nor capacity of the buffer pointed to by the pointer. > > Brian Budge wrote: >> >> You can't take the address of the sizeof() result. This is probably a >> more appropriate question for a c++ forum, as this is not gcc >> specific. >> >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Rifat Mahmud <rftmhmd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> >>> n=iconv(c, &a, &sizeof(a), &d, &sizeof(b));/*The problem is here, >>> > >
