Re: Help needed for migrating HPUX tool to Solaris

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, arkutt@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

core dump while running the exe.

exe? You're not a Windoze programmer, are you? ;-)

t@1 (l@1) terminated by signal SEGV (no mapping at the fault address)
Current function is main
107 printf("Usage: %s Interface_ID [Message_ID]\n", argv[0]);
(dbx) where
current thread: t@1
=>[1] main(argc = 0, argv = (nil)), line 107 in "rcv_main.c"

My bet is that you're passing a null pointer to printf. ISTR that HPUX
thinks (or at least, thought) that it's a good idea to mask programmer
errors in this way (dereferncing a null pointer is always a programmer
error!). SOlaris doesn't, a core dump ensues.

To avoid, properly trap null pointers, so that you don't try to
dereference them.

HTH,

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