hi everyone
ive just made a little program that uses structures, and memory allocation
the program comes up with a error message saying 'segmentation fault'
i think this is because there is a bug in the memory allocation part of the program but im not sure
thanks in advanceCode:#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include "simpleio.h" struct book { char *author; char *name; }copy1; struct book copy2; int main() { copy1.author=malloc (*copy1.author * sizeof (char)); copy1.name=malloc (*copy1.name * sizeof (char)); printf("please enter the authors name and the name of the title\n"); gets(copy1.author); gets(copy1.name); copy2.author = copy1.author; copy2.name = copy1.name; free(copy1.author); free(copy1.name); printf("your book %s by %s is on its way in the post\n", copy2.name, copy2.author); return 0; }