Re: C run time error in Tandem.
 

On 1/4/2013 12:33 AM, jk__c wrote:
> I get a run time error in the below sprintf when I try executing the c
> program in Tandem. This code is successfully compiled and tested in
> windows. I'm trying to convert an array of unsigned char to a char string
> using sprintf and it fails exactly at this line. If I replace sprintf
> with a normal printf("%02X",sha256sum[j]) in the below code also the same
> error occurs.

How do you know that the error occurs in the sprintf? What happens if you
remove the sprintf call entirely?

> ERROR
> -----------------------------------
> - *** Run-time Error 003 ***
> - Instruction failure
>
> CODE SNIPPET
> ------------------------------------
>
> unsigned char sha256sum[32];
> char converted[65];
> ....
> ....
>
> for( j = 0; j < 32; j++ )
> {
> sprintf(&converted[j*2],"%02X",sha256sum[j]);
> }

There's nothing wrong in the code you've posted, but it's quite possible
that something elsewhere is the actual cause of the problem.