Comments on: I am getting segmentation fault in the following Pgm..please explain if u clear about structure ponter…i am facing the issue that …is it madatory to initialize struct pointer????? https://www.emblogic.com/blog/07/i-am-getting-segmentation-fault-in-the-following-pgm-please-explain-if-u-clear-about-structure-ponter-i-am-facing-the-issue-that-is-it-madatory-to-initialize-struct-pointer/ Embedded System and ARM Training Mon, 07 Oct 2013 04:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: hemant.kumar https://www.emblogic.com/blog/07/i-am-getting-segmentation-fault-in-the-following-pgm-please-explain-if-u-clear-about-structure-ponter-i-am-facing-the-issue-that-is-it-madatory-to-initialize-struct-pointer/#comment-946 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:06:58 +0000 http://emblogic.org/blog/?p=3830#comment-946 when ever you use a structure pointer varible you need to allocate memory to the structure
p=malloc(sizeof(struct logic));

otherwise Segmentation fault
do one thing use p insted of (*p) then calculate sizeof(structure )
you will get the size of the whole structure
but in case of pointer no memory is allocated ,malloc is mandatory here

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