On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 10:20 -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 04:16:40PM +0200, BankHacker wrote: > > Jakub, I have tried to do what you propose but the following code is > > throwing an error in execution time: [...] > > memset(randomdataState, 0, sizeof(*randomdataState)); > > And you dereference the uninitialized pointer here ^^^. Umm, just to be pedantic, sizeof will happily return the number of bytes required to store 'struct random_data'. It doesn't need to dereference anything. eg. "sizeof(struct random_data)" The problem is with: > random_r(randomdataState, &nRandom); in which random_r() uses (and dereferences) the uninitialized randomdataState. Matt Davey There are two theories to arguing with women. mcdavey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Neither one works.
