I didn't want to reinvent the wheel, so I downloaded libtga which seemed to have a convenient and simple API. Building was easy, but I stumbled upon a weird segmentation fault I can not explain. A small example:
#include <stdio.h>
#include "tga.h"
#define TEST
int main()
{
TGA *tga;
TGAData data;
tga = TGAOpen("test.tga", "r");
if(!tga || tga->last != TGA_OK)
{ printf("TGAOpen failed\n"); return 1; }
if(TGAReadImage(tga, &data) != TGA_OK)
{ printf("TGAReadImage failed\n"); return 1; }
TGAHeader *header = &tga->hdr;
printf("image dimensions:\n width: %d\t height:%d\t depth:%d bpp\n",
header->width, header->height, header->depth);
tbyte *img = data.img_data;
if (img== NULL)
{
printf("Pointer wrong\n");
return 1;
}
printf("pointer: %p\n", img);
printf("test %hhu\n", img[0]);
#ifdef TEST
for(int i=0; i<header->height; i++)
{
for(int j=0; j<header->width; j++)
{
int index = 4*(i*header->width + j);
printf("%3d %3d %3d %3d | ", img[index], img[index+1], img[index+2], img[index+3]);
}
printf("\n");
}
#endif
TGAClose(tga);
return 0;
}
I compile the program with: gcc -g --std=c99 -O0 tgatest.c -L./lib -ltga -I./include
Now, if "TEST" is defined everything works fine and the values for each pixel are printed to stdout (I use a 4x4 image). If I don't define "TEST" it throws a segmentation fault at line
printf("test %hhu\n", img[0]);
I don't understand why. Debugging shows that "img" is "Address 0x1 out of bounds", but with "TEST" it is a valid address. Any suggestions how to further investigate this? I thought the compiler may optimize things away, but -O0 doesn't change anything. Same for the --std=c99.