Ignazio,
You wrote:
> It's a PalmOS bug?
No, the bug is in you. :-P StrCat() is supposed to work like
the strcat() function in the standard C library of Unix.
It does not pretend to act sensibly if the two strings overlap:
STRCAT(3) Linux Programmer's Manual STRCAT(3)
NAME
strcat, strncat - concatenate two strings
SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h>
char *strcat(char *dest, const char *src);
DESCRIPTION
The strcat() function appends the src string to the dest string over-
writing the `\0' character at the end of dest, and then adds a termi-
nating `\0' character. The strings may not overlap, [...]
Not that it matters, but if you are using PODS, you can see that the
behavior is not specific to PalmOS by writing a little C program,
---- test.c --------
#include "string.h"
main()
{
char *s = "Andre\0001234567";
strcat(s,s);
}
---------------------
and compiling it from the Cygwin command line and running it:
$ cc test.c
$ a.exe
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Jay Ts
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