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From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
Subject: Re: strtok_r crashing
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:50:13 +0100
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On Thu, 2002-11-14 18:16:04 +0530, Hemant Mohan <hemantm@pune.tcs.co.in>
wrote in message <OF8E547BE6.AC22B859-ON65256C71.0045BBB6@pune.tcs.co.in>:
> Hi,
>=20
> I am trying to parse a string using strtok_r (I need reentrant code) as
> follows:
>=20
> #include <string.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>=20
> int main()
> {
>   char *str =3D NULL;
>   char *temp =3D NULL;
>   char **ptr =3D NULL;   // Note that this is a char**

Note that there's no memory allocated for *ptr.

> This code receives a SIGSEGV in strtok_r.

Surely. Accessing random memory.


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