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Top Forums Programming memcpy segfaults, but not in windows Post 93515 by khoma on Monday 19th of December 2005 08:37:36 PM
Old 12-19-2005
memcpy segfaults, but not in windows

Hi

Having a lil trouble with a rather simple application I'm writing. It so happens that I have to copy some data using memcpy() and so far I've been doing just fine compiling it with VC.Net and running it on Windows XP. Now I'm trying to port the thing to Solaris (which shouldn't really be too big a deal) and for some reason it is causing problems.

Code:
int SendPacket(unsigned short packNo, const char* data, unsigned short sSize){
	int addrlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr);
	int iRet = 0;
	PutShortAt(buffer, OP_DATA);	// Insert DATA op code
	PutShortAt(buffer + 2, packNo);	// Insert packet number
	memcpy(buffer + 4, data, sSize); // Insert the actual data
	iRet = sendto(iSock, buffer, sSize + 4, 0, (struct sockaddr *)&sraddr,addrlen);	// Send packet

	printf("Sent %d bytes\n", iRet);
	return IOK;
}

The line which causes the segfault is the memcpy() line. Basically, what I'm trying to do is this;

const char* data contains 512 bytes of arbitrary data that is to be added to a 516 byte packet which will then be transmitted to a computer somewhere on the internet. Byte 4-516 will contain the data. The first 4 bytes in the packet are reserved for packet information in the form of two shorts. sSize is of course the data size.

Any ideas as to what may be causing this? Like I said earlier, it runs just fine on Windows (of course with the appropriate modifications to net code, winsock and such). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

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MEMCPY(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 MEMCPY(3)

NAME
memcpy - copy memory area SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h> void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n); DESCRIPTION
The memcpy() function copies n bytes from memory area src to memory area dest. The memory areas must not overlap. Use memmove(3) if the memory areas do overlap. RETURN VALUE
The memcpy() function returns a pointer to dest. CONFORMING TO
SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001. SEE ALSO
bcopy(3), memccpy(3), memmove(3), mempcpy(3), strcpy(3), strncpy(3), wmemcpy(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. 2010-11-15 MEMCPY(3)
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