Re: Unknown malfunction of ncurses

[fred smith]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 07:03:53PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 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?

I tried to restrain myself, but find I am unable. Therefore I must point
out that a "viola" is a stringed instrument that looks a lot like a
violin. Perhaps you meant "Voila!" ???