Re: Curious segmentation fault... SOLVED

[Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail dot com>]

Tuesday 23 May 2006 19:10 samaye, Andrew Haley alekhiit:

> You call swe_fixstar with the argument 0 (star) = spicanaama.
> swe_fixstar does
>   sprintf(star, "%s,%s", cpos[0], cpos[1])
> so, it overwrites its input argument (spicanaama).  But spicanaama
> isn't big enough to contain the resulting string, so it overwites the
> next variable, which is grahanaama[0].

Thanks. Changing the size of spicanaama to 41 solved the problem. The library 
developer informed me that though the documentation said 40 bytes, it was a 
bug and it should be 41. So I allocated 41 bytes to it and that was all.

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