[SDL] [HELP] SDL Segmentation

[David Olofson]

(This is not SDL related, but anyway...)

On Sunday 08 January 2006 20:07, Ivan wrote:
[...]
> 	char string[255];
[...]
> 	while(fgets(string,255,fin)!=NULL){

fgets() writes a NUL byte *after* the last byte read, so this will 
segfault if the file is longer than 254 bytes.

As a general rule when dealing with the string functions of the C 
library: Be very careful with those NUL terminators and buffer size 
limits...


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