Subj : Re: fstream arrays
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "Dwayne" <myfrienddr@yahoo.com>
Date : Thu Mar 11 2004 09:00 am

       Hello D Kat,

D Kat>>Can you give me info on Memcheck?  9 times out of ten any of my
problems come down to buffer overwrites (one of the first things I
thoroughly checked on this issue...). "

         Those buffer overwrites are very critical in your program.
1.  Make sure your Buffers are large enough... They should be at *least* as
long as the data value PLUS the trailing NULL character.

 Name="Hello World"

         Name is actually 12 characters long....not 11.  It has a trailing
NULL to signify the end of the Variable.  Forgetting this, and doing some
strcpy and cats can kill ya.

         Set Memcheck on, and use it.  Chances are, you have overnights,
because your strcats are overwriting your memory, or your buffers are small,
and you are writing data that is longer than your allocated buffer.

                    Dwayne

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