[LCP]debugging?

[Zachary Uram]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 17:11:27 -0800, Bill Rausch <BRausch at owt.com> wrote:
>
> Stub is a replacement function that you use to test a program. For
> example, if a program calls a function that does lots of complex
> stuff, you could replace the function with something really simple
> that takes the same parameters but skips the calculation. This allows
> you to test the calling routine without worrying about the details of
> the called function.

Hi Bill,

I see. Can I put a function's stub in a .h file? Sometimes I see
functions defined after main and they have no stub before main. How do
I determine if I need a stub or not?

> Segmentation fault is almost always a bad pointer or bad parameter
> passed to a function.  For example, you malloc some space for a
> pointer x, later you free it, and then even later you use x as though
> you hadn't freed it. It will compile ok, and might even run ok most
> of the time but once in a while you'll get in trouble because once
> you've freed it you are never supposed to refer to it again until you
> malloc some new space.

Oh, could you perhaps give some code snippets to document these error
conditions and how to fix them?

Regards!
Zach