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strtok(3) blues

 > Maximiano Cruz Francisco writes:
 >
 > We are getting segmentation faults on strtok.
 >

The implementation of strtok(3) on Suns is apparently broken. Look:

This is an SGI:
   
    @Poptart 181->uname -a
    IRIX Poptart 5.2 04091117 IP22
    @Poptart 177->cat > sasa.c
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <string.h>
    
    void main(void)
    {
        printf ("%s\n", strtok("The first words Adam said to Eve?", " "));
    }
    ^D
    @Poptart 178->gcc -g sasa.c -o sasa
    @Poptart 179->sasa
    The
    
So it works just fine. Now on a Sun
    
    @Athena 51->uname -a
    SunOS Athena.McRCIM.McGill.EDU 4.1.3 7 sun4m
    @Athena 52->gcc -g sasa.c -o sasa
    @Athena 53->sasa
    Segmentation fault
    
Let's see where
    
    @Athena 54->gdb sasa
    GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
     under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions.
    There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details.
    GDB 4.13 (sparc-sun-sunos4.1.2), 
    Copyright 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
    (gdb) r
    Starting program: /amnt/jerome-4/home/vision/franco/tmp/sasa 
    
    Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
    0xef79dc18 in strtok ()
    
    
Ok, you are right. Maybe it doesn't like the const char * in the first
argument? (The manpage says it should, but anyway...)
    
    @Athena 177->cat > sasa.c
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <string.h>
    
    void main(void)
    {
        char s[]="The first words Adam said to Eve?";
        printf ("%s\n", strtok(s, " "));
    }
    ^D
    @Athena 178->gcc sasa.c -o sasa
    @Athena 179->sasa
    The
    
That's it

Ciao
Franco