Re: Access violation error

From:
David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:02:37 -0500
Message-ID:
<eF7cHW8vHHA.3560@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
karim wrote:

Hi All,
i have the following code in my cpp file
**************************************************
int i = 0;

char *passwordToEncrypt = "080000151F6ECF67";
char *encpwd8 = NULL;
char *encpwd16 = NULL;

//if i uncomment below line,then it throwing access violation error during
runtime
//i = 0605;

int l = E3Des(passwordToEncrypt, encpwd8, encpwd16, &i);

****************************************************

the method "E3Des" is defined in a dll and it is linked. so no compilation
errors:-). i have only runtime error.

can anybody help me out.


karimulla:

What is the declaration of E3Des()? Does it modify the first parameter?
It would seem that it does. In that case you must pass it a modifiable
character string

char passwordToEncrypt[1024] = "080000151F6ECF67";

(assuming that 1024 is long enough).

Additional point: when you assign a string literal to a char pointer you
should always write

const char *passwordToEncrypt = "080000151F6ECF67";

Then the compiler will stop you from passing it to a function that will
modify the string (i.e. one that takes char* as argument).

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

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