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Re: STATUS+AF8-ACCESS+AF8-VIOLATION Exception
- From: egor duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>
- To: "Amos" <tirtsab at inter dot net dot il>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:17:16 +0300
- Subject: Re: STATUS+AF8-ACCESS+AF8-VIOLATION Exception
- Organization: deo
- References: <009a01c1a4d7$217b30d0$16c008d5@amosjx3m6o4w1v>
- Reply-to: egor duda <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Hi!
Thursday, 24 January, 2002 Amos tirtsab@inter.net.il wrote:
A> Any simple c program that uses a string function crashes with the
A> STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION exception.
A> #include <string.h>
A> main()
A> { char *abc = "a b c";
A> strcpy(abc, "hello");
A> printf("%s\n", abc);
A> }
your program is incorrect. "a b c" string is a constant and can't be
overwritten. complier places it in read-only segment, hence the
exception in strcpy. Please refer to any C language manual for rules
of proper string manipulation.
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
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