Segmentation Fault When Using `strncpy` with Uninitialized Destination Buffer
I'm wondering if anyone has experience with I'm stuck on something that should probably be simple... This might be a silly question, but I'm working with a segmentation fault in my C application when using `strncpy` to copy a string to a destination buffer. The destination buffer is declared but not initialized. Here's the relevant code snippet: ```c #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> void copy_string(const char *src) { char dest[10]; // uninitialized destination buffer strncpy(dest, src, sizeof(dest)); dest[sizeof(dest) - 1] = '\0'; // ensure null termination } int main() { char *source = "Hello, World!"; copy_string(source); printf("Copied string: %s\n", dest); return 0; } ``` When I run this code, I get a segmentation fault during the `strncpy` call. I’ve tried initializing the destination buffer with zeros: ```c char dest[10] = {0}; ``` However, the segmentation fault continues. I suspect that the question might be with how I'm trying to access `dest` in the `main` function, but I'm not sure why it’s causing a fault. I also checked for buffer overflow, and `strncpy` should be safe here since the source string is longer than the destination buffer. What am I missing here? Is it related to the scope of `dest` or something else? My development environment is Windows. For context: I'm using C on Linux. Any ideas what could be causing this?