Re: Segment fault ../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/strcpy-sse2.S

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Dan Richard wrote
> char *str;   strcpy(str, "hello");

You are writing to a random memory location.
The pointer str is not initialized to point to valid
memory, which you would have to allocate previously.

Try instead

  char str[100];
 
  strcpy(str, "hello");

This is good for strings up to 99 characters plus
trailing 0 as terminator.

If your string length is only predictable at run time
then use dynamic memory allocation

  ...
  #include <stdlib.h>
  ...

  char *str;
  int lstr;

  lstr= strlen(argv[1]);

  /* >>> maybe check for absurd size */

  str= calloc(1, lstr + 1);
  if(str == NULL) {

     /* >>> bail out with message about lack of memory */;

  }
  strcpy(str, argv[1]);

(Warning: Written from wetware memory. Not actually tested.
          Take this only as sketch for the real code.)

Further reading:
  Classic: Kernighan, Ritchie, The C Programming Language
  Online:  google "C language tutorial"
  Recreational: http://crashworks.org/if_programming_languages_were_vehicles/


Have a nice day :)

Thomas