here start is pointing to string constant which is created in read-only
memory which can't be changed.so modifying it in the for loop causes
segmentation fault
declare it as a array type
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:36 PM, rahul <rahulr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> char *start is const char *start, pointer to const char, u can't derefernce
> it and change it.
> take a char start[256].try this.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:31 PM, dinesh bansal <bansal...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Can you please point me to the error in the following function. It gives
>> segmentation fault.
>>
>> int main()
>> {
>> char *start = "12.12.12.12.12976665176069214";
>> char *hex_buf = "65003a0a";
>> unsigned short i, j = 0;
>> int new_len2 = strlen(hex_buf);
>> for (i = 0; ((j+1) < new_len2); i+=2,j+=2)
>> {
>> start[i] = hex_buf[j];
>> start[i+1] = hex_buf[j+1];
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Thanks,
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