RE: [ilug-cal] [OT]Problems with gcc

[Soumyadip Modak]

 
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Yep u got it. It's that pesky &. I don't like scanf, but the lab
instructors insist on it :(


Soumyadip Modak
RCC Institute of Information Technology
Kolkata, India



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> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 3:42 PM
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> Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] [OT]Problems with gcc
> 
> 
> Soumyadip Modak wrote:
> 
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > 
> > int main()
> > {
> >         float celsius, fahrenht;
> > 
> >         printf("Enter temp. in Celsius:");
> >         scanf("%f",celsius);      <--- ERROR here!
>           scanf( "%f", &celsius );  <--- Should be like this
> >         fahrenht=(9*celsius/5)+32;
> >         printf("Fahrenheit temp. is:%.3f",fahrenht);
> > }
> > 
> 
> I'm right now not on the machine that has the gcc3.2 
> compiler, but compiling this program with gcc2.91 shows a 
> syntax error in the line that says "scanf .... ". Obviously, 
> "celsius" should be "&celsius". I wonder why the compiler on 
> your machine didn't signal this error at compile time. 
> Naturally this will cause a "segmentation violation" error at 
> runtime. I must try this out with gcc3.2! This promises to be 
> interesting.
> 
> - Manas Laha
> 
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