Program crashing as windows executable

Hi,

I made a program about ~4k lines on my university's server with text editor Pico and gcc compiler. It works perfectly on their linux based server, but when I e-mail it to myself and then put it in Code Blocks and create the windows executable with MinGW, it crashes fairly quickly.

I thought it could be a stack overflow problem, but I believe I've successfully adjusted the stack size to 3 gigs (just for testing purposes), and it still fails.

Would anyone know an alternative to the windows executable? Could I possibly download something similar to what my school is using, so that it doesn't crash?

I know the details are vague, but that's the extent of what I know as of now. Of course, I could edit down my code, but as of now I'm not interested in trying that. (I'm guessing it wouldn't be just a quick fix.)

What you need to do is fix your program. "It works over there" doesn't mean your program is correct.

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Originally Posted by tabstop

What you need to do is fix your program. "It works over there" doesn't mean your program is correct.

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Agreed... when it works "both here and there" it stands a much better chance of being correct.

That said... it might be headers or use of OS specific functions in which case it should be fairly easy to get the most of it corrected with a few #defines...

As the previous two posters have stated it's almost certainly a bugged program.

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Originally Posted by porstart

I know the details are vague, but that's the extent of what I know as of now. Of course, I could edit down my code, but as of now I'm not interested in trying that. (I'm guessing it wouldn't be just a quick fix.)

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The most reliable "quick fix" in these things is "work out the real problem and eliminate the cause". That means you have to do exactly what you are not interested in doing.

Laziness and reliance on finding some download to cope are not particularly effective problem solving strategies.

Even in tiny snippets of code like yours.

Run it through a debugger and post the lines/code near the lines when it crashes.

Also you've got gdb, so you can run it in the debugger and see where you are when it all goes pear-shaped. (You will have to compile with -g; and if you're just using a single file rather than a project I don't think you get the integrated debugger with C::B but will have to run it from the command line.)

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Originally Posted by tabstop

Also you've got gdb, so you can run it in the debugger and see where you are when it all goes pear-shaped. (You will have to compile with -g; and if you're just using a single file rather than a project I don't think you get the integrated debugger with C::B but will have to run it from the command line.)

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I discovered that, but I was waiting to post the error till I had time to work on it myself.

it's a segfault on this line:

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res = strcmp(letters, base[x]);

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the variables involved have these declarations:

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//global
char letters[MAX+1];
char *base[SIZE];
int depth;

//local
static int res, x;
letters[depth] = '\0';

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I can't see a problem yet.

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Originally Posted by porstart

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res = strcmp(letters, base[x]);

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//global
char letters[MAX+1];
char *base[SIZE];
int depth;

//local
static int res, x;
letters[depth] = '\0';

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I can't see a problem yet.

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Check that x is less than SIZE

Check that base[x] is not NULL/0.

Tim S.

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Originally Posted by stahta01

Check that base[x] is not NULL/0.

Tim S.

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That was it, thanks.