GCC: fclose() Error

[Brian Budge]

This seems like a cygwin glibc problem.  I think it's unrelated to gcc.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:12 PM, g sobers <g.forumz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I seek assistance with a GCC-related source of error, which is illustrated with the help of sample code below:
>
> 1) FILE * f;
> 2) f = fopen(argv[1], "r");
> 3) fclose(f);
> 4) FILE * f1;
> 5) f1 = fopen(argv[1], "r");
> 6) while ((c = fgetc(f)) != EOF){
> ...
> ...
>
>
> 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.
>
> Look forward to a prompt response.
>
> Best regards,
> Gaurav