Re: I'm sorry...

[sml13 cornell edu]

Good point...BUT, this dies too:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

void main() {
    char* var = "hey you";

    printf ("%s\n", strtok (var, " "));
}

shane

On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Tomas Ogren wrote:

> On 30 November, 1998 - sml13@cornell.edu sent me these 0.9K bytes:
> 
> > ...to abuse the list like this (this will be the only time, I promise), 
> > but can any of you GCC/C hackers out there tell me why Gcc (2.7.2.3 on 
> > Linux x86) segfaults on execution of this program:
> > 
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <string.h>
> > 
> > void main() {
> >     printf ("%s\n", strtok ("hey you", " "));
> > }
> > 
> > This is a correct usage of strtok, from what I have read.
> 
> man strtok:
> "The functions strcat(), strncat(), strcpy(), strncpy(), strtok(), and
> strtok_r() all alter their first argument."
> 
> Is it good to modify a constant string?
> 
> /Tomas
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