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Re: puzzling error

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: puzzling error
Date 2011-05-05 09:11 -0700
Organization None to speak of
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"osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
[...]
>> strfry() is a GNU extension. It takes a char* as is sole argument and 
>> returns a char*.  Now if I change that char p[] to a char *p I get a 
>> segmentation fault. What's up with that?
>
> Do you think you have now mastered C and want to take on Unix as a 
> challenge?  Or what?
>
> This is the wrong newsgroup for Unix based questions. 

strfry is not a Unix function; it's unique to the GNU C library (and
remember, GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix").

strfry() is GNU-specific, but the issue isn't; you'd have the same
problem with any non-standard function.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Nokia
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puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 08:44 -0400
  Re: puzzling error Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-05-05 13:56 +0100
    Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 12:11 -0400
      Re: puzzling error Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-05 09:26 -0700
        Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 13:26 -0400
        Re: puzzling error Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 11:34 -0700
        Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 14:52 -0400
        Re: puzzling error Paul N <gw7rib@aol.com> - 2011-05-05 13:39 -0700
          Re: puzzling error Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-05 13:54 -0700
        Re: puzzling error Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-05-05 20:38 +0000
          Re: puzzling error Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-05 14:11 -0700
          Re: puzzling error Angel <angel+news@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-05 23:40 +0000
      Re: puzzling error Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-05 13:55 -0400
        Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 14:04 -0400
          Re: puzzling error Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-09 13:26 -0400
        Re: puzzling error Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-05 11:31 -0700
    Re: puzzling error Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-05 09:06 -0700
      Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 12:30 -0400
      Re: puzzling error Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-05 13:40 -0400
      Re: puzzling error Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-05-05 21:32 +0100
    Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 13:34 -0400
      Re: puzzling error Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-05-05 21:38 +0100
        Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-06 02:39 -0400
          Re: puzzling error Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-05 23:40 -0700
  Re: puzzling error Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2011-05-05 13:01 +0000
    Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 12:05 -0400
      Re: puzzling error Angel <angel+news@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-05 16:23 +0000
    Re: puzzling error Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-05 09:08 -0700
  Re: puzzling error Marc Boyer <Marc.Boyer@cert.onera.fr.invalid> - 2011-05-05 13:02 +0000
    Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 12:34 -0400
      Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 12:35 -0400
      Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 12:40 -0400
      Re: puzzling error Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-05 14:08 -0400
        Re: puzzling error Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-05 11:35 -0700
          Re: puzzling error Angel <angel+news@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-05 18:54 +0000
            OT: man strfry (was Re: puzzling error) Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-09 13:33 -0400
              Re: man strfry (was Re: puzzling error) "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-11 14:30 -0400
    Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 13:13 -0400
      Re: puzzling error Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-05 14:13 -0400
        Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 14:27 -0400
          Re: puzzling error "Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.jojo@schmitz-digital.de> - 2011-05-07 09:59 +0200
            Re: puzzling error Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-07 11:20 -0700
  Re: puzzling error August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com> - 2011-05-05 15:58 +0200
  Re: puzzling error "osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2011-05-05 10:38 -0500
    Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 12:03 -0400
      Re: puzzling error Joe Wright <joewwright@comcast.net> - 2011-05-05 13:19 -0400
      Re: puzzling error Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-05 13:34 -0400
        Re: puzzling error "osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2011-05-05 12:54 -0500
        Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 14:08 -0400
    Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 12:06 -0400
    Re: puzzling error Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-05 09:11 -0700
      Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 12:36 -0400
    Re: puzzling error Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-05 13:33 -0400
  Re: puzzling error Angel <angel+news@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-05 16:01 +0000
    Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 12:09 -0400
      Re: puzzling error Angel <angel+news@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-05 16:19 +0000
        Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 12:28 -0400
          Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 12:42 -0400
            Re: puzzling error "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-05-05 13:16 -0400
      Re: puzzling error Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-05 13:41 -0400

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