C-Style unsigned char parsing and manipulation in C/C++ - segmentation fault - c++

Question

Note that I'm using a C++ compiler ( hence, the cast on the calloc function calls) to do this, but the code is essentially C.
Basically, I have a typedef to an unsigned char known as viByte, which I'm using to create a string buffer to parse a file from binary (a TGA file, to be exact - but, that's irrelevant).
I'm writing basic functions for it right now; append, prepend, new, etc.
The problem is that, on the first iteration of the first loop in viByteBuf_Prepend, I get a segmentation fault. I need to know why, exactly, as this is something which could keep me up all night without some pointers (pun intended).
I also would like to know if my algorithms are correct in terms of how the buffer is pre-pending the viByte string. For example, I have a feeling that using memset too much might be a bad idea, and whether or not my printf format for the unsigned char is correct (I have a feeling it isn't, as nothing is getting output to my console).
Compiling on GCC, Linux.
Ze Code
#ifdef VI_BYTEBUF_DEBUG
void viByteBuf_TestPrepend( void )
{
viByteBuf* buf = viByteBuf_New( 4 );
buf->str = ( viByte* ) 0x1;
printf(" Before viByteBuf_Prepend => %uc ", buf->str);
viByteBuf_Prepend( buf, 3, ( viByte* ) 0x2 );
printf(" After viByteBuf_Prepend => %uc ", buf->str);
}
#endif
viByteBuf* viByteBuf_New( unsigned int len )
{
viByteBuf* buf = ( viByteBuf* ) calloc( sizeof( viByteBuf ), 1 );
const int buflen = len + 1;
buf->str = ( viByte* ) calloc( sizeof( viByte ), buflen );
buf->len = buflen;
buf->str[ buflen ] = '\0';
return buf;
}
void viByteBuf_Prepend( viByteBuf* buf, unsigned int len, viByte* str )
{
unsigned int pos, i;
const unsigned int totallen = buf->len + len;
viByteBuf* tmp = viByteBuf_New( totallen );
viByte* strpos = buf->str;
memset( tmp->str, 0, tmp->len );
int index;
for( i = 0; i < buf->len; ++i )
{
index = ( buf->len - i ) - 1;
*strpos = buf->str[ 0 ];
++strpos;
}
memset( buf->str, 0, buf->len );
printf( "%uc\n", buf->str );
i = totallen;
for ( pos = 0; pos < len; ++pos )
{
tmp->str[ pos ] = str[ pos ];
tmp->str[ i ] = buf->str[ i ];
--i;
}
memset( buf->str, 0, buf->len );
buf->len = tmp->len;
memcpy( buf->str, tmp->str, tmp->len );
viByteBuf_Free( tmp );
//memset( )
//realloc( ( viByteBuf* ) buf, sizeof( viByteBuf ) * tmp->len );
}
Many thank yous.
Update
Sorry, I should have explicitly posted the code where the segmentation fault lies. It is right here:
for( i = 0; i < buf->len; ++i )
{
index = ( buf->len - i ) - 1;
*strpos = buf->str[ 0 ]; //<--segmentation fault.
++strpos;
}

Answer 1

On your code you have buf->str[ buflen ] = '\0';, but you only allocate space for buflen. I think you meant buf->str[ len ] = '\0';.