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From: oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Bug in THINK C????
Message-ID: <23243@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 20 Feb 91 04:44:20 GMT
References: <9102181103.aa10735@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu>
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <9102181103.aa10735@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu> rhutchin@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU writes:
>Here's something that is compiled into "error-free" object code in THINK C 4.0:
>	NumToString((long) BuffCopy, tempStr);

>where:
>	char  *BuffCopy;
>	char  *tempStr;

you know that the result has to go into a place, i.e.,:

	char *buffCopy;	/* local variables initially contain garbage */
	char *tempStr;
	char strBuf[100];

	tempStr = strBuf;	/* make tempStr point at a real place */
	NumToString((long) buffCopy, tempStr);
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