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Top Forums Programming fread: segementation fault(coredump) w/o stdlib.h Post 302286856 by quintet on Thursday 12th of February 2009 06:29:21 AM
Old 02-12-2009
I have added the printf statement and yes, the program is failing because the buffer is not allocated. It fails in the strcpy function.

Code:
#include <stdio.h>
int main () {
  FILE * pFile;
  long lSize;
  char * buffer;
  size_t result;

  pFile = fopen ( "test.xml" , "rb" );
  if (pFile==NULL) {fputs ("File error",stderr); exit (1);}

  fseek (pFile , 0 , SEEK_END);
  lSize = ftell (pFile);
  rewind (pFile);

  buffer = (char*) malloc (sizeof(char)*lSize);
  if (buffer == NULL) {fputs ("Memory error",stderr); exit (2);}

  printf ("\n size of buffer %ld, length of file %d\n ", sizeof(buffer), lSize);

  strcpy (buffer, "test message");
  printf( "\n Buffer Data is : %s", buffer);
  result = fread (buffer,1,lSize,pFile);
  if (result != lSize) {fputs ("Reading error",stderr); exit (3);}

  /* the whole file is now loaded in the memory buffer. */

  fclose (pFile);
  printf(" sizeof char :%d \n", sizeof(char));
  printf( "File: %s ", buffer);
  free (buffer);
  return 0;
}

Output:

size of buffer 8, length of file 260
Memory fault(coredump)
 

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GFS_PIO_GETS(3) 														   GFS_PIO_GETS(3)

NAME
gfs_pio_gets - read one line SYNOPSIS
#include <gfarm/gfarm.h> char *gfs_pio_gets (GFS_File f, char * s, size_t size); DESCRIPTION
gfs_pio_gets() reads one line from the file specified by the parameter gf to the buffer specified by the parameter s. You need to specify the size of the buffer by the parameter size. Unlike gfs_pio_getline(3), this function doesn't remove newline character at the end of the buffer. But if whole contents of the line can- not be stored to the buffer due to its length, or if the file reaches the end without newline, there will be no newline at the end of the buffer. In any case, one '' character is appended to the end of the buffer. If the file reaches its end, the length of the string in the buffer becomes 0. RETURN VALUES
NULL The function terminated successfully. GFARM_ERR_NO_MEMORY Insufficient memory was available. Others An error except the above occurred. The reason is shown by its pointed strings. EXAMPLES
EXAMPLE OF GFS_PIO_GETS FUNCTION #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <gfarm/gfarm.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { char *e; GFS_File gf; char buffer[512]; e = gfarm_initialize(&argc, &argv); if (e != NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "gfarm_initialize: %s ", e); return (EXIT_FAILURE); } if (argc <= 1) { fprintf(stderr, "missing gfarm filename "); return (EXIT_FAILURE); } e = gfs_pio_open(argv[1], GFARM_FILE_RDONLY, &gf); if (e != NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s ", argv[1], e); return (EXIT_FAILURE); } e = gfs_pio_set_view_global(gf, 0); if (e != NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: gfs_pio_set_view_global: %s ", argv[1], e); return (EXIT_FAILURE); } while ((e = gfs_pio_gets(gf, buffer, sizeof buffer)) != NULL && *buffer != '') { printf("got: %s", buffer); } if (e != NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: %s ", e); return (EXIT_FAILURE); } e = gfs_pio_close(gf); if (e != NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "gfs_pio_close: %s ", e); return (EXIT_FAILURE); } e = gfarm_terminate(); if (e != NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "gfarm_initialize: %s ", e); return (EXIT_FAILURE); } return (EXIT_SUCCESS); } SEE ALSO
gfs_pio_open(3), gfs_pio_getline(3), gfs_pio_readline(3), gfs_pio_readdelim(3) Gfarm 13 May 2004 GFS_PIO_GETS(3)
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