From: Randi Botse <nightdecoder@gmail.com>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: malloc question
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:33:50 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTik1ZqN2cOqu65f380wfgOHQpwX7gg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi All,
I want to ask malloc() behaviour, consider these codes;
...
char *ptr = malloc(1);
strcpy(ptr, "what");
puts(ptr);
....
Confusingly, the strcpy() copied all bytes to ptr, but I just manage
to allocate ptr only for 1 byte, I guess I will have segfault here,
why this happen? why the string successfully copied into ptr? , is
those code legal?
Randi,
next reply other threads:[~2011-04-26 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-26 10:33 Randi Botse [this message]
2011-04-26 10:40 ` malloc question Daniel Baluta
2011-04-26 10:54 ` ratheesh kannoth
2011-04-26 10:57 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-04-26 11:50 ` ratheesh kannoth
2011-04-26 15:05 ` Glynn Clements
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