Hi
What you said about the buffer not being able to cope with the strings, is
it possible that i am trying to send too much data to it, such as a wld file
which contains loads on rooms, the one i was adding when this probelm
occured held about 80 rooms, is this likeley to cause the problem or shall I
go back to gdb
Alex
>From: Peter Ajamian <pajamian@CHEAPSAM.COM>
>Reply-To: Circle Discussion List <CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca>
>To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca
>Subject: Re: [CIRCLE] Help CORE DUMPED ERROR
>Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:16:41 -0800
>
>Alex Mann wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > Sorry i know i should have known better then that but this problems has
>just
> > really anoyed me, not much stumps me completely like this.
>
>That's okay, I can say with almost ceartainty that everyone on this list
>has come across a problem more than once that completely stumped them
>(at least for a time). My best advice for that is to take a deep
>breath, relax and follow the advice given to you in the GDB manual (on
>the ceramic mouse site) and on this list.
>
>A few things to note, core dumps are not anything to get frustrated
>over, a core dump is there to help you find a problem in your code, it
>is created for you when your program seg faults.
>
>strcat is a standard library function which has gotten lots of use and
>been fuuly debugged a long time ago, it is quite unlikely that the cause
>of the problem is in strcat. You problem is most likely caused by a
>buffer being passed to strcat that is not large enough to hold the
>contents of both strings.
>
>The reason that GDB shows the seg fault in strcat is because that is
>where the problem reared its ugly head, to find out what called strcat
>just type bt into gdb and it will show you what function called what
>function all the way back to main. You should be able to see what
>called strcat and on what line of what file.
>
>At this point there should be enough information to get you started on
>finding the problem, you can refer to the above mentioned documents
>(that several others have recommended) for some more very helpfull
>commands to use in gdb, and if you still can't figure it out, just take
>a deep breath, relax, and post back to the list with all the info you
>have collected so far and someone will be ore than happy to help you out
>a step further.
>
>Regards, Peter
>
>
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