Thread: segmentation fault

hi,
i want to know why i get "segmentation fault" when i try to run exe file in linux using './' command after compiling using g++ command .what is the problem??

I believe it gives you that error because there is a problem with memory in your program. Either allocating, or check your boundaries of your arrays, you may have gone over the limit of the array size somewhere.

name is a pointer that is uninitialised. You can either change it to be an array, or use dynamic memory allocation. Your choice

hi,
thanx for that but anywayz you say the name isnt initialized. how? its already initialised as pointer to char inside the struct.

Code:

struct iode
{
char*  name ; // do you want me to initialise it  as char* name[] ??
};
int main(void)
{
// now here i declare the object
iode* ptr ;
// and i access name 
cin>> ptr->name; // do you mean to say i do 
                            // ptr = new[]  char*  ??? or what??
}

thanx again dude.

>>its already initialised
No, it's not.

>>as pointer to char inside the struct.
Thats what type of pointer it is. To initialise it, you must point it at a specific memory location.

You could change your struct entry to have name like this:

>>char name[100];

That is the simplest route. It gives you an array of 100 bytes to store the name.