make: Nothing to be done for `all’

Sometimes “Nothing to be done for all” error can be caused by spaces before command in makefile rule instead of tab. Please ensure that you use tabs instead of spaces inside of your rules. instead of Please see the GNU make manual for the rule syntax description: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Rule-Syntax

Where is the C auto keyword used?

auto is a modifier like static. It defines the storage class of a variable. However, since the default for local variables is auto, you don’t normally need to manually specify it. This page lists different storage classes in C.

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Using true and false in C

Just include <stdbool.h> if your system provides it. That defines a number of macros, including bool, false, and true (defined to _Bool, 0, and 1 respectively). See section 7.16 of C99 for more details.

What does “pointer being freed was not allocated” mean exactly?

Only pointers returned by calls to malloc(), realloc() or calloc() can be passed to free() (dynamically allocated memory on the heap). From section 7.20.3.2 The free function of C99 standard: The free function causes the space pointed to by ptr to be deallocated, that is, made available for further allocation. If ptr is a null … Read more

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strcmp giving segmentation fault

The above statement defines get to be a pointer to a character. It can store the address of an object of type char, not a character itself. The problem is with both scanf and strcmp call. You need to define an array of characters to store the input string.