Segfault on type cast!

[ZiaTioN]

I am running into a weird situation where I am trying to print an integer value as a string using type casting which has been the way I have done it in the past and I am getting a segfault on the printf statement.

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printf((char*)statbuf.st_size);


That is the syntax of the printf statement. statbuf is just a buffer I use to hold the results of an lstat. Here is how I have it defined:

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struct stat statbuf;


Any ideas? If it would help I could post more code but the rest works fine.

[Void Main]

I may be missing something but don't you need the format as well?

e.g.
printf("%s",(char*)statbuf.st_size);

P.S. Did you see my last post on your "pwd" thread?

[ZiaTioN]

Yeah I tried the formatting too but got the same segfault.

And yes I did see your last posts on the pwd thread. Thanks for putting in the work to find the actual source. I have not had time to give it any attention yet though but I will.

[Void Main]

Actually, this works for me:

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printf("size=%u\n",statbuf.st_size);


[ZiaTioN]

Yeah unsigned int does work, so does %d (digit). I don't know why I did not hink of that. LOL..

I actually use:

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printf("%d\n", (int)statbuf.st_size);


I had to type cast to int because I compile with "-Wall" and it was giving me a warning.