[syslinux] IP details in COM32 module

[Luciano Rocha]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 06:10:02PM +0800, Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote:
> buff is defined as 'char *buff'.
> 
> Many thanks for the pointer, the code no longer produces a hard hang.
> 
> I found a few other problems with my code as well.  Things seem to work better when defined as 'char something[n]' rather than 'char *something' but I'm not sure why this would be the case.

Yes, things usually go better when you define memory for them.
char something[n] defines an array of size n (the compiler allocates the
buffer, usually on the stack). char *something defines a pointer to an
area of memory. Unless you initialize it (like something = malloc(n) or
something = some_array), it points to a random area of memory, and
you're likely to corrupt data.

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lfr
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