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From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question about pointer
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Date: 1 Mar 91 23:59:12 GMT
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yxz1684@hertz.njit.edu (Ying Zhu ee) writes:


>main()
>{
>    char a[10], b[10], *p, *combine();

>    strcpy( a, "horse" );
>    strcpy( b, "fly" );

>    p=combine(a, b);
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -> This is wrong.  'p' has not yet been correctly
			 initialized.  pointers need to be initialized
			 before you can set them equal to something.  You
			 could change p's declaration to char p[256] and
			 then do a strcpy(p, combine(a, b)); .


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