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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Help...
Message-ID: <1253@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 11:50:25 GMT
References: <731@carroll1.UUCP>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc
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In article <731@carroll1.UUCP>, dnewton@carroll1.UUCP (Dave 'Yes, I'm weird' Newton) writes:
> main ()
> {
>    char      h[];
		^^
You need to specify the size of the array.  Otherwise your scanf will overwrite
other data on the stack and usualy will cause a core dump.

>    scanf ("%s", h);
>    printf ("%s\n", h);
> }



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