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From: Mohammed Khalid Ansari <khalid@ncst.ernet.in>
To: linux c programming mailing list <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: is it a buf or what?
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 16:03:35 +0530 (IST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0206081601090.19134-100000@soochak.ncst.ernet.in> (raw)


Hi,

I had written a small program as follows...

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
	char	*ptr;
	
	strcpy (ptr, "khalid");
	printf ("%s\n", ptr);
	return 0;
}

As you can see, I haven't allocated the space for the pointer ptr. When I 
ran the program, instead of giving me the segmentation fault, it just ran 
printing "khalid". Is it a bug of gcc or the kernel.

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             reply	other threads:[~2002-06-08 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-08 10:33 Mohammed Khalid Ansari [this message]
2002-06-08 12:03 ` is it a buf or what? Glynn Clements
2002-06-08 16:40 ` Elias Athanasopoulos
2002-06-08 17:24 ` Marius Nita

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