isprint/isspace segfaulting

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Wed Dec 10 06:16:00 GMT 2003


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Raj wrote:

> PS: In the below program if i declare 'ch' as 'char', then things work
> fine. Only when it is declared as 'int' does the problem shows up.
> 
> Is this expected ?

Why would you expect the program to work?  You pass a partially
initialized value to isspace.  Three of the four bytes are
uninitialized, and which depends on the endianess.

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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