Hi,
I am programming an in memory representation of a database and am at
the tail end, hopefully, of implementation. But the vexing point is
that my program runs fine with all my diagnostic printf statements, but
as soon as I remove the printf statements the program crashes with a
pointer error (usually tried reading x00000000 error).
I have tried everything from flushing the buffer, tracking done the
routine, etc... can anyone offer me some suggestions to something I
might try? Has anyone had a similiar error? What is going on with
printf that would cause the removal of it to prvent program execution?
Does printf empty a buffer that is overflowing? Please excuse my
lamentations but I've hit my head against this for almost 2 days.
Thank you in advance for any response.
May 25 '06
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"Harman Dhaliwal" <ha*******@gmai l.com> writes: Hi,
I am programming an in memory representation of a database and am at
the tail end, hopefully, of implementation. But the vexing point is
that my program runs fine with all my diagnostic printf statements, but
as soon as I remove the printf statements the program crashes with a
pointer error (usually tried reading x00000000 error).
I have tried everything from flushing the buffer, tracking done the
routine, etc... can anyone offer me some suggestions to something I
might try? Has anyone had a similiar error? What is going on with
printf that would cause the removal of it to prvent program execution?
Does printf empty a buffer that is overflowing? Please excuse my
lamentations but I've hit my head against this for almost 2 days.
Thank you in advance for any response.
You probably have some undefined behavour elsewhere in the code.
You seldom need some debugger.
--
espen
Joe Smith wrote: "Richard Heathfield" ha*******@gmail .com said:
I am relatively new to C and am
approaching from a high level language (java) background
The cause of your C problem is an error in the way you are using
pointers.
Did the claim that printf managed to print a negative number of
characters figure into this diagnosis? joe
Look up the specification of printf. A negative return value
indicates error. This probably has nothing to do with the OPs
problem. He probably has some sort of undefined behaviour
somewhere, such as a buffer overrun or a bad pointer.
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news:44******** *******@yahoo.c om... Joe Smith wrote: "Richard Heathfield" ha*******@gmail .com said:
I am relatively new to C and am
approaching from a high level language (java) background
The cause of your C problem is an error in the way you are using
pointers.
Did the claim that printf managed to print a negative number of
characters figure into this diagnosis? joe
Look up the specification of printf. A negative return value
indicates error. This probably has nothing to do with the OPs
problem. He probably has some sort of undefined behaviour
somewhere, such as a buffer overrun or a bad pointer.
--
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the broken "Reply" link at the bottom of the article. Click on
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"Keith Thompson" <ks***@mib.or g> wrote in message
news:ln******** ****@nuthaus.mi b.org... "Joe Smith" <gr**********@n etzero.net> writes: "Richard Heathfield" ha*******@gmail .com said:
I am relatively new to C and am
approaching from a high level language (java) background
The cause of your C problem is an error in the way you are using
pointers.
Did the claim that printf managed to print a negative number of
characters
figure into this diagnosis? joe
I don't recall any such claim.
printf() returns the number of characters printed, or a negative value
if an error occurs. Even if it were possible for it to print a
negative number of characters, there would be no way for it to
indicate that it had done so.
You are correct. The negative return was only premised. My claim is that
what is premised might have something to do with his output. joe
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My newsreader or server has definitely gone Indian on me. joe
Harman Dhaliwal wrote: as soon as I remove the printf statements the program crashes with a
pointer error (usually tried reading x00000000 error).
Everyone is just guessing; let me guess too.
Either you've used an uninitialized automatic variable, or have
coded just "return;" where "return x;" was needed. The
printf() is irrelevant per se, but happens to change the value of
undefined register or memory.
Just a guess based on my own debugging experience. If
someone's making book I'll want at least 9-to-2 odds before
betting on this horse.
James
Harman Dhaliwal wrote: Hi,
I am programming an in memory representation of a database and am at
the tail end, hopefully, of implementation. But the vexing point is
that my program runs fine with all my diagnostic printf statements, but
as soon as I remove the printf statements the program crashes with a
pointer error (usually tried reading x00000000 error).
I find this interesting. I had the same problem when I did something
like this:
int a =3;
int arr[a];
instead of using malloc()
I wonder what is special about printf() which caused it to cover up our
problem. Perhaps someone could shed some light on it, even though it
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