Please tell whats the error… why it’s not compiling?

by

Use this 

printf("%s" , word);

instead of 

printf("%s" , *word);

Because the *word will be the value at word[0] which is a character. The printf however is looking for an array of chars, thus causing it to segfault. strings are just arrays of characters terminating with '\0'.

More Related Contents:

  1. Usage of uint_8, uint_16 and uint_32
  2. Do I cast the result of malloc?
  3. What is the LD_PRELOAD trick?
  4. What is the fastest/most efficient way to find the highest set bit (msb) in an integer in C?
  5. What does double underscore ( __const) mean in C?
  6. Modifying String Literal [duplicate]
  7. Getting terminal width in C?
  8. how to rasterize rotated rectangle (in 2d by setpixel)
  9. Static variable inside of a function in C
  10. what is the reason for explicitly declaring L or UL for long values
  11. Merge multiple .so shared libraries
  12. Pre increment vs Post increment in array
  13. Xcode – Warning: Implicit declaration of function is invalid in C99
  14. What are C macros useful for?
  15. Global variables in C are static or not?
  16. Generating a uniform distribution of INTEGERS in C
  17. How garbage values are assigned to variables in c
  18. c popen won’t catch stderr
  19. variably modified array at file scope in C
  20. Does pthread_mutex_lock contains memory fence instruction? [duplicate]
  21. When implementing an infinite loop, is there a difference in using while(1) vs for(;;) vs goto (in C)?
  22. what “inline __attribute__((always_inline))” means in the function?
  23. Is there a way to get warned about unused functions?
  24. Count number of digits – which method is most efficient?
  25. How to make an array return type from C function?
  26. Using getchar() on c gets the ‘Enter’ after input [duplicate]
  27. strncpy leading to segmentation fault
  28. What exactly is -fno-builtin doing here?
  29. 2D Array indexing – undefined behavior?
  30. Pass va_list or pointer to va_list?

Leave a Comment