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From: marcoz@MARCOZ.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU (Marco Zagha)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portability help
Keywords: portability, MS-DOS, UNIX, wierd, core dump, strings, chars
Message-ID: <4261@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 89 14:47:36 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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In article <376@lakesys.UUCP> davek@lakesys.UUCP (Dave Kraft) writes:

[...]
> main()
> {
>        char a, b, c, d, e;
> 	
>        [...]
>
> 	printf("\n>>%s<<", &a);
>	[...]
> }

As far as your core dump problem goes, you are trying to treat the
address of a single character as a string.  A string (in the
printf sense) is a pointer to a NULL TERMINATED string of characters.
You should be using the %c specifier as in other parts of your code.

== Marco (marcoz@cs.cmu.edu)
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