@sanjay: what about Bus error..?
On 7/18/12, Sanjay Rajpal <sanjay.raj...@live.in> wrote:
> Segmentation fault occurs when you try to access a memory which doesn't
> belong to your program.
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> You are trying to cast a memory location of one byte to 4 byte(assuming
> size of long int to be 4). It is possible that other three bytes belong to
> some other process.
> That is why you are getting segmentation error.
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> Correct me if m wrong.
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> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:55 PM, vindhya chhabra
> <vindhyachha...@gmail.com>wrote:
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>> is it due to accessing the long at odd address?
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:54 PM, vindhya chhabra
>> <vindhyachha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > #include < stdlib.h>
>> > #include < stdio.h>
>> > int main(void)
>> > {
>> > char *c;
>> > long int *i;
>> > c = (char *) malloc(sizeof(char));
>> > c++;
>> > i = (long int *)c;
>> > printf("%ld", *i);
>> > return 0;
>> > }
>> > please explain how bus error occurs here..i am not clear about bus
>> > error and segmentation fault..plz help.
>> >
>> >
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