Re: trouble with g_stat

[James Cameron <quozl laptop org>]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 10:27:48PM -0400, GaryW wrote:
> My use of g_stat causes a segfault, but regular stat works ok. I’m using
> mingw64 on Win10 under msys2.
> [...]
>
> GString *fspec;
>
> GStatBuf *stBuf;
>
> //fspec->str tested to hold the correct file spec…
>
> if(g_stat(fspec->str,stBuf)<0){… [9476 Segmentation fault]

stBuf is an uninitialised pointer.  g_stat will try to write to the
address; undefined behaviour results.

Try allocating some memory of the right size, and assign that address
to the pointer before calling g_stat?

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James Cameron
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