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Re: Accessing global variables causes segfault


One problem is that 'myglobal' is a pointer to an int, but the int is never defined, and hence, you're assigning a value to a pointer that points no where.

It's very common for things like this to work on one platform, but not another.

On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 00:21, Steve Baldwin wrote:
I'm having some (further) issues porting some Unix code to cygwin.  I
have a
scenario where there are global variables defined in a shared library,
and referenced in the executable.  See the example below.  Yes I know
it's bad coding practice, but I'm hoping to port the code with the least
amount of re-writing as possible.  It works fine under Unix, but as you
can see from below, doesn't play well under cygwin.  Is there anything
I can do - apart from the obvious re-write.

Cheers,

Steve

[cdev]$ cat a.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
extern void fx (void) ;
extern int myglobal ;

int
main (int argc, char **argv) {
        myglobal = 99 ;
        fx () ;
}
[cdev]$ cat b.c
#include <stdio.h>

int             *myglobal ;

void
fx (void)
{
        printf("here i am : myglobal = %d\n", myglobal) ;
}
[cdev]$ gcc b.c -o libb.dll -shared
[cdev]$ gcc a.c -o a -L. -lb
[cdev]$ a
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


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