Re: Unknown malfunction of ncurses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:01:39PM +0200, Anthony Marshall wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
>  Whilst trying Example 9. A Simple Color example in the 
> NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html, I extended the program slightly, thus:
> 
>  /*
>  * colr_ex.c color example
>  *
>  * $Revision: 1.46 $
>  */
> 
>  #include <ncurses.h>
>  #include <string.h>
> 
>  static char *msg[] = {
>  "Viola !!! In color ...","A slightly longer string here ...",
>  "Short string ..."

msg[] contains 3 strings (msg[0], msg[1], msg[2]).
msg[3] is undefined.

    for (; x < 4; x++) {
        print_in_middle(stdscr, LINES / 2, 0, 0, msg[x], x + 1);
 
>  As you may notice in the main, I have commented out the for() loop because, 
> uncommented, it seems to generate a segmentation error each time it is 
> compiled in and run, and I cannot seem to work out why.
> 
> Could you please advise me why this is the case and is there a solution?

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