Thread: Segfault writing pointer-to-struct to file.

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    Segfault writing pointer-to-struct to file.

    It's something like this:

    Code:
    MyStruct *mystructvar;
    
    cin << mystructvar->value;
    
    file >> mystructvar->value;
    When the program gets to the iofile line, segmentation fault. I was never good at pointers. What am I doing wrong?

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    You must allocate memory to a pointer first (unless you point to it to memory you've already allocated).
    MyStruct* mystructvar = new MyStruct;
    Quote Originally Posted by Adak View Post
    io.h certainly IS included in some modern compilers. It is no longer part of the standard for C, but it is nevertheless, included in the very latest Pelles C versions.
    Quote Originally Posted by Salem View Post
    You mean it's included as a crutch to help ancient programmers limp along without them having to relearn too much.

    Outside of your DOS world, your header file is meaningless.

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    Man, that's all? Now I'm embarrased that I spent an hour trying to fix this problem before I posted here.

    I knew that. I did, honest.



    Thanks for the help, by the way.

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