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Hi so Im wondering when would there be a case when fprintf would crash a program. I didn't create the program but I'm trying to debug it. I've been able to use fprintf on other files in the program, but for some reason this one file where im just trying to fprintf helloworld crashes the program. And its able to recongize the
extern FILE* fpvar;
so its able to see the pointer to the where i originally created fpvar. but once i put a fprintf it crashes the program
You may be observing the effects of undefined behaviour. By the way, it is usually better to use a debugger to debug, rather than scatter debug print statements all over the place.
can you post the code ?
Without any code, I'd say the most likely reason is that fpvar doesn't point to a valid file stream that is open for writing. This could be because
1. fpvar was never initialized or set to the result of an fopen call
2. fpvar was opened at some point, but then closed, thus it points to bogus memory that does not describe an open file stream
3. You have some other memory issue, e.g. buffer overflow, that is scrambling the contents of the fpvar pointer and making it point to memory that doesn't describe an open file stream
Well I cant use a debugger that i know of cuz im using jni functions and although this isnt a jni function where im getting the problem the main code is base in java and when i call the jni thats when it crashes.
I cant really post the code because its companys code im trying to debug but i mean the basic thing is i have
FILE* fpvar in my main code in C where JAVA does a jni call
then the rest of my files have
extern FILE* fpvar;
and it works for other files but this one where im just diong
fprintf(fpvar, "helloworld\n");
it crashes once i open the java program.