[Gdal-dev] "Old-Style" ESRI .PRJ files -- Access Violation on ImportFromESRI

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 12/10/05, Christopher Michaelis <cmichaelis at happysquirrel.com> wrote:
> Ben,
>
> Thanks very much for the "CSLLoad" trick! That seemed to make all the
> difference in the world. Using your code excerpt makes it work
> beautifully... apparently my fread approach was flawed. Problem solved!

Chris,

The problem is that importFromESRI() expects a "string
list" which should be an array of "char *" with a NULL as the
last entry in the array.  Because you just passed in &pszWKT
there was no proper NULL terminator for the list.

I presume that was the cause of the crash.

Best regards,
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