Re: [Dev-C++] Problem on XP Professional

[Mohammed I. <mi...@ac...>]

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From: "Ed Cottrell" <em...@ed...>
To: "'Mohammed Iqbal'" <mi...@ac...>; "'Dev-Cpp-Users'"
<dev...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 6:16 PM
Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] Problem on XP Professional


> Mohammed,
>
> You have a buffer overflow or a problem with pointers. For example, if you
> declared in one place char a[] = "Hello world", then tried to do
> sprintf(a,"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"), that could do it. More likely, you're
> doing something like assigning an invalid value to a pointer or failing to
> use malloc().

I checked it many times. No problem with pointers. It is a memory allocation
problem. The problem is solved because I added more memory to my computer.


> If your program took three hours to compile and you haven't debugged it,
> yet, it's going to take you a LONG time to find all the problems. I
suggest
> reading up on pointers at http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html

it took all that time to compile because it is very big and uses class
templates and function templates heavily.

Mohammed