Question

I have these variables set in my debugger:

//Debugger values not code

relative_path = “./bin/Debug”

strlen(relative_path)=11

relative_path[11] = 0 ‘\000’ //As shown in Eclipse debugger

In my code I then do:

//**My Code**
struct dirs_later {
    const char *findme;
    struct dirent *dptr;
    struct stat this_lstat;
    char *relative_path;
    const char *type_str;
    DIR * dir;
};

....
struct dirs_later *new_dir = malloc(sizeof(struct dirs_later*));
...
char *relative_path2 = strdup(relative_path);
if (NULL != new_dir) {
    new_dir->findme = findme;
    new_dir->dptr = dptr;
    new_dir->this_lstat = *this_lstat;
    new_dir->relative_path = relative_path2;
     new_dir->type_str = type_str;
    }

but then the debugger shows after new_dir->relative_path = relative_path2. Then in the debugger:

//Debugger values not code

relative_path2 = “&\275\001” and

strlen(relative_path2) =3

I also tried this in my code instead:

//**My Code**
char *relative_path2 = malloc(strlen(relative_path) + 1 * sizeof(char));
//check for NULL
strcpy(relative_path2, relative_path);

and I get the same result

Answer 1

Should the line

struct dirs_later *new_dir = malloc(sizeof(struct dirs_later*)); 

be

struct dirs_later *new_dir = malloc(sizeof(struct dirs_later)); 

as you want to create the space on the heap for the structure, not just a pointer.