"Ton van Overbeek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexandre Luz Barreto wrote: > > I have a program that works fine on devices with palmos 4.1 and early > > but on OS 5.2 i get a invalid ptr error > > whats wrong? > > > > ULong romVersion; > > char *PalmOS = NULL; > > > > FtrGet(sysFtrCreator, sysFtrNumROMVersion, &romVersion); > > StrIToH(PalmOS,romVersion); > > > > > > You have to allocate memory for the result string, which you obviously > do not (char *PalmOS = NULL). StrIToH is now trying to write to address 0 > which is a big NoNo. So invalid ptr is correct. You are overwriting low > memory on Palmos 4.x devices, which is a *bad* thing.
I'd strongly suggest you run your code on a debug emulator before releasing it to any more victim^H^H^H^H^H^Husers, or you risk serious issues. A debug emulator will help you pick up on a lot of programming errors such as this one, and hopefully result in a much more stable product. Alan -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
