In a message dated 10-09-98, James Mckenzie said to Herbert Bushong about
"Need to copy"

Hi James,

JM>Ok.  Let me state what happened again.  I tried to use memcpy and I ended
JM>up with a SYS1808.  Calling the FUNCTION with the same code 
JM>compiled with Watcom C/C++ 10.0a results in the same error 
JM>message. Something is wrong with either the structure or 
JM>the method of accessing the function.

You don't tell us what exception code was in the SYS1808 message. I shall
assume 5, which is a GPF.

JM>The call is calc_offered_load (&ex);

JM>And the function line is
JM>void calc_offered_load (EXPT_DESC_PTR expt)
JM>{ Code in here }

You need to tell us what the code is, above, as this seems to be where your
memcpy() call resides.

JM>ex is of type EXPT_DESC

JM>And the structure ends with:

JM>} EXPT_DESC  *EXPT_DESC_PTR

JM>which from what I remember makes expt a pointer to the variable ex.

The types will match, but what of the content?

The real problem is that one or both of the pointers used in the memcpy()
operation is invalid, probably NULL. Examine the code you use to initialize
the structure ex, in particular any embedded pointers that are involved in
the memcpy() operation.

Regards

Dave

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