C coding question

Pietro Cerutti pietro.cerutti at gmail.com
Wed May 17 11:40:39 PDT 2006


On 5/17/06, Micah <micahjon at ywave.com> wrote:
> Andy Greenwood wrote:
> > I am helping someone work on porting some code to Freebsd, and the
> > code below works on Linux, but not on FreeBSD (compiles, but gives
> > Segmentation Fault: 11). I'm not sure where the problem is, and any
> > pointers would be much appreciated.
>
> That's funny, it doesn't even compile on my freebsd:
>
> trisha% cat test.c
> /* Check if we must stop */
> if(tf_stat_file != NULL)
> {
>    tf_stat = fopen(tf_stat_file, "r");
>    if (tf_stat != NULL)
>    {
>      /* Get state */
>      stat_state=fgetc(tf_stat);
>
>      /* Torrentflux asked to shutdown the torrent */
>      if (stat_state == '0')
>      {
>        mustDie = 1;
>      }
>    }
>    fclose(tf_stat);
> }
> trisha% cc test.c
> test.c:2: error: syntax error before "if"

AFAIK, the code should be put inside a function at least to compile ;-)
>
> IOW, if you expect usable help please supply some context.

I agree..

>
> Later,
> Micah
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