I'm not sure why you think you have a bad file pointer. FWIW, unless you have the library source, it isn't much use stepping into a library function. rna On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, lynn tilby wrote: > > I am receiving a bad file pointer from fopen. > > The permissions on the foo_data (input) file are 777, > owner is the person executing the compiled code, the code is > being executed in the same dir as the foo_data file. > > The interesting thing is that fopen is NOT returning a NULL > file pointer. The program continues on and gives the message > of successfully opening foo_data. In the real (non-example) > code the prog eventually core dumps on the fread. > > gcc version is: > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs > gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release) > > Here is the sample code: > #include > FILE *in_ptr, *fopen(); :> main() > { > if((in_ptr = fopen ( "./foo_data" , "r")) == NULL) > { > printf("\nfopen failed on foo_data\n\n"); > exit(1); > } > printf("\nfopen successful on foo_data\n\n"); > } > > Here is the xxgdb output: > Breakpoint 1, 0x804838c in fopen () > (xxgdb) step > Single stepping until exit from function fopen, > which has no line number information. > _IO_new_fopen (filename=0x8048522 "./foo_data", mode=0x8048520 "r") at > iofopen.c:42 > 42 iofopen.c: No such file or directory. > (xxgdb) > > ANY THOUGHTS?????? > > Thanks for you response! > Lynn > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >