Tricky seg fault in C

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I'm trying to run a C project for my university assignment and I've hit a seg fault on the line "while (current->next != NULL) {" in the following code segment:

FILE* f = fileOpen("test.txt");
if (f != NULL){
    functionList = fileReadToMemory(f, &graphParams);//functionList is a pointer to the first value of the linked list it creates
    current = functionList;

    while (current->next != NULL) {
        printf("%d %d %d %s", current->red, current->green, current->blue, current->expression);//Prints value of linked list
        current = current -> next;
    }
}

The error that gdb gives me is as follows:

Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x000000000000003a
0x0000000100000b30 in main () at main.c:23
23          while (current->next != NULL) {

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

asked 2 mins ago

Tom Barne Macmillan

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You need to do while (current != NULL) instead of current->next != NULL since the last element in the list will cause segfault.

answered 45 secs ago

Andrew Luo

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Tricky seg fault in C