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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Memory Fault
Keywords: help
Message-ID: <40890@think.Think.COM>
Date: 22 Jul 90 03:32:14 GMT
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In article <189@S5000.UUCP> gh@S5000.UUCP (Sys Admin) writes:
> * CODE NOT TESTED, HOWEVER IT SHOULD WORK FINE FOR simped.

Famous last words...

>if (buffer = (char *) malloc(strlen(string)) == NULL)

Common error: it should be strlen(string)+1.  Strlen() doesn't include the
trailing '\0' in its result, but you need to allocate room for it.
--
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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