strange problem with self-compiled software on FC 5 T2...

Ulrich Drepper drepper at redhat.com
Tue Feb 7 04:16:21 UTC 2006


Patrick von der Hagen wrote:
> Now, whom should I contact? glibc, gnu-c or gnu-c++?

Nobody but the person who wrote that code.  You pass a pointer to a
'char' variable for the %s format element.  Even *if* you only read one
character the terminating NUL byte will overwrite the next byte.  That's
likely your variable 'j'.

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