Re: Segmentation Fault

From:
"mlimber" <mlimber@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
9 May 2006 12:53:58 -0700
Message-ID:
<1147204438.056512.202680@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
didier2309 wrote:

I get segemntation fault when I enter that function it executes till
wcpcpy(lacc_num, L"000-00-0001");
 Here is the function:
It executes till the statement wcpcpy(laccnum, L"000-00-0001");


Executes up to and including that line or up to and then crashes on
that line?

int acopen::open_acc()
{
        int accnum;
        char stname[80];
        FILE *getaccnum;
        getaccnum = fopen("numbers", "r");
        if(getaccnum == NULL){
            cout << "No account has been openned yet\n";
            wcpcpy(lacc_num, L"000-00-0001");
        }

[snip]

There's no obvious problem here. However, we don't know what wcpcpy
does or what type lacc_num is. Looks like it's time to use your
debugger. Look for memory over-runs somewhere in your program before it
reaches this point. Wayward pointers can cause strange errors in
unrelated parts of the program.

Of course, since this is comp.lang.c++, I would suggest you use
fstreams instead of C-style files.

Cheers! --M

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