Re: [MiNT] XaAES crash errors

[Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>]

Paul Wratt wrote:
> The question: how do I pass "char *line" through to an intermediate
> function that can then pass "&line" correctly. Would passing "*line"
> be enough..

Things are not so simple, that *, ** and & are not here by chance.
We can't answer this question without knowing the context. It seems you want 
to split a function into 2 functions, which is probably good.

You should post here the relevant elements of the function in question and 
we will answer on a concrete example.

But we must keep in mind that writing C programs is complicated.
With a basic knowledge of any programming language, it is possible to read 
and understand most C code (except some language elements which are tricky).

Writing C code is another story. It is usually quite difficult for C 
beginners to manage to compile a program. And when it finally compiles, they 
say "Hoorah !" but most of the time the program is full of bugs, and it 
crashes at runtime or does a wrong thing. The C language is even more evil: 
sometimes it seems the program does the right thing, but actually it writes 
to illegal memory, so it works by chance and it is trashing something else 
which will crash later in a incomprehensible way...

I just want to say that refactoring a complex code as you are doing require 
solid C skills, there are good chances that you will break something away 
without seeing the effects. Then it will be a headache to find bugs...

So you should really begin by improving your C knowledge, as it has already 
been told here.
Well, this is just an advice.

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Vincent Rivière