problems with Dev-C++

[graciano]

Hi

I wrote this program ...

#include<stdio.h>
#define size 3

main()
{
      int a[size];
      int i;
         
      printf("Input values for array a\n");
      for(i=0;i<size;i++)
          {
          printf("a[ %d ] = ",i);
          scanf("%d",a[i]);
          }
}

... and e always an get an Windows XP error message:
exp.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Can someone help me?
Thanks

[Banfa]

You have 2 or 3 problems (depending on the file type C or C++)

1. main must return int. You have no choice in this matter, not returning int invokes undefined behaviour. And as a consequence of this you need to add a return statement.

2. If this is a C problem then main must have the parameters int argc, char ** argp

int main(int argc, char ** argp)

again not including them is undefined behaviour. If this is C++ then main can take no parameters.

3. And finally on the code line

scanf("%d",a[i]);

scanf requires a pointer to an int but you have provide an int meaning that it is almost certainly writing to some random memory location, this should be

scanf("%d",&a[i]);

[Ganon11]

Banfa's 3rd suggestion is likely the one causing problems - earlier today, I was trying to use a C program and forgot to add the & before my variable in scanf, and I got the same error.

Guess that's what I get for trying to go backwards in time and learn C after C++ :P

[Banfa]

Banfa's 3rd suggestion is likely the one causing problems - earlier today, I was trying to use a C program and forgot to add the & before my variable in scanf, and I got the same error.

Guess that's what I get for trying to go backwards in time and learn C after C++ :P

I thought I told you not to bother with scanf?

[Ganon11]

I was trying to see what was happening in a user's code! I had to do it just to see what was going wrong!