[syslinux] IP details in COM32 module

[Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer)]

Hi all

Please ignore my last email, I see where my code was wrong now.  I now
see all the DHCP options correctly.  

I'll quietly go away now...

CC 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com 
> [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of Luciano Rocha
> Sent: Monday, 11 June 2007 6:40 PM
> To: syslinux at zytor.com
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] IP details in COM32 module
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> lfr
> 0/0
> 

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