Seg Fault before hitting main()
hello, i'm writing a program and thus far all i have tried to do is read in a text file, parse it using strtok(), and try to add it to a hash_table implementation that was given to me. when i try to run the executable, though I get a segfault. The strange thing is, I have a printf("enter main") as the first line of my main method, but it doesnt even get printed... So I guess I'm segfaulting before even reaching the main method...how is this possible?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks
Because you need
if you expect to actually see the result. (Or print to stderr, since that prints immediately rather than line-by-line.)Code:printf("enter main\n");
Post the part of your code that's giving you trouble, in code tags please.Originally Posted by cargo8
My crystal ball is in for a tune up...
It's completely impossible to say. You've shown almost no code whatsoever.
If you don't print a newline at the end of your “enter main” (or fflush(stdout) afterward), it might never get printed after a crash, so that's no guarantee that it's happening before main().
When you see a crash, your first step should be to use a debugger. Good free debuggers are gdb and valgrind: I recommend valgrind for most uses simply because it can often pinpoint the cause of a problem way before any symptoms are seen.
thank you, i guess i am reaching main. i can debug from here. It was because i had printf("reach main") instead of "reach main\n"
