Okay in the following code
For any string with length > 8, the program crashes. Someone please tell me why that happens!!Code:#include<stdio.h> #include<string.h> #include<stdlib.h> struct mystruct { int a; char * string; }; struct mystruct mystruct1; int main() { mystruct1.string=(char *)malloc(sizeof(char)); strcpy(mystruct1.string,"ljgls;dd"); printf("Here"); return 0; }
Thanks!
Technically, it can crash for any string with length greater than zero. The behaviour is undefined. You just got lucky (or unlucky, depending on your perspective) that the malloc() function with your compiler/library allocates a chunk of 8 in your code, since you specified a length of 1.
Try multiplying the argument of malloc() by a value that exceeds the length of any string you want to copy to mystruct1.string plus one.
Oh! Thank you so much!
