Thread: Weird error, possible related to strings, pointers, stupidity, all of the above

Hey, I'm working on this program and I have two modules. One is a job class which contains a name. The other is a scheduling class.

I'm having this problem where I put a job through my job_copy method and the name comes out scrambled-- but it doesn't happen within the job_copy method itself.

Here is my output:
Before job_copy-- name: name2
In job_copy-- name: name2
After job_copy-- name: �D(�����h(��Z���/(��

Here is the relevant code in the Scheduler class:

Code:

Job* SC_removeJob(Scheduler* sc){


	/* WHAT IS GOING ON?????? */
	Job* j;

	printf("Before job_copy-- name: %s\n", sc->job->name);
	j = job_copy(sc->job);

	printf("After job_copy-- name: %s\n", j->name);

and here is the job_copy method:

Code:

Job* job_copy(Job *j2){

	Job* j1 = job_alloc();
	char new[5]; /*fix this?? */
	j1->name = strcpy( new, j2->name);
	j1->startTime = j2->startTime;
	j1->CPUTime = j2->CPUTime;
	j1->CPUTimeLeft = j2->CPUTimeLeft;
	j1->IOOperations = j2->IOOperations;
	j1->priority = j2->priority;

	j1->timeSlice = j2->timeSlice;

	j1->opsPerMs = j2->opsPerMs;

	printf("In job_copy-- name: %s\n", j1->name);
	return j1;
}

I'm very confused as to where the error is occurring.
Any help = 5 Schrute bucks.

Thanks!

Got it.
Thanks matsp.