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From: nnj20229@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nesha Nicole Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Memor fault, Core dump
Summary: Could someone briefly explain the causes of coredumps and memorfaults
Keywords: memory fault, coredump
Message-ID: <1991May21.160406.20825@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 21 May 91 16:04:06 GMT
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I am having a small problem debugging a program of mine. I get a memory
fault after a fprintf statement.  I was trying to allow the user to input 
more than one line of information at a prompt.  The program prints the
printf statement and then then does the fprintf and then bombs with a 
memory fault.  I know memory faults can be caused by a lot of things
but I was wondering if you could point me in the correct direction for
debugging it.  


also, I read in two values, a date and a time.  I strcat the date and time
together and the value for date is somehow changed to the 5th char in time
ex.  09:45   date= 5


Any suggtestions about why this happens would also be helpfull.

Thanks,
NNJ