segmentation fault !!!

[turkeyheroc]

hey,
In the main part, I get the segmentation fault error while going to the next part of this,
for (int j = 0; j < strlen(*guess); j++) {

for (int z = 0; z < strlen(*guess); z++) {
if (*guess[j] == *secret_number[z])
cows++;
}
if (*guess[j] == *secret_number[j])
bulls++;

}

[Repeater]

int comparenum;
comparenum = (int)malloc(16);

This makes no sense. What are you trying to do here. This makes no sense.

[turkeyheroc]

yes I removed that part but the result did not change I rearranged my question

[MikeyBoy]

Presumably, you're accessing invalid memory. Either you're dereferencing a pointer to invalid memory, or you're trying to access beyond the memory allocated for one of your arrays.

You really haven't shown us enough code for us to know.

[Ganado]

It depends entirely on how you have your memory laid out.

What exactly is guess?
if strlen(*guess) compiles, that means that guess is a char** of some sort.

guess[i] might not even be valid data, but we can't tell without knowing more.
You might have meant to do (*guess)[i] or guess[0][i] to access individual characters, but it's very odd.

[Thomas1965]

Get rid of all this pointer stuff and stick with char arrays.
I guess this is related to a previous topic about cows and bulls.