Thread: Realloc Segmentation Fault

Originally Posted by workisnotfun

Would allocating memory to the pointers, then assigning those values to it be a good solutions?

Something like the following?

Code:

    static const char original[] = "Something";
    char *string;
    size_t length;

    /* We need length + 1 characters. */
    length = strlen(original);
    string = malloc(length + 1);
    if (!string) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Out of memory.\n");
        return 1;
    }

    /* Initialize the string. We know string is long enough. */
    strcpy(string, original);

Or, if you have POSIX.1-2008 support,

Code:

#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200809L

    char *string;

    string = strdup("Something");
    if (!string) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Out of memory.\n");
        return 1;
    }

both will give you a dynamically allocated pointer, to a string "Something", you can reallocate.