Segmentation fault in C, can't seem to find the cause - c

Question

I can't seem to find the cause of the segmentation fault in the code below. The code crashes in the line with the comment, after jumping back to main() from evaluate(). I looked at this code with gdb, and it seems everything is ok within the evaluate function - Output is filled in correctly, however after I return to main, nothing in the memory can be accessed. "p j" in gdb return an memory not accessible error, as does trying to print any other variable. I checked if the stack maybe had to many values, but increasing the stack size does not help.
The crazy thing is that I can solve this error, but I have no idea why it changes anything. If I add, anywhere in evaluate(), an int declaration (eg. int iAmNotUsedEver;) then the code suddenly doesn't cause a segmentation error and works perfectly in gdb.
Edit: Dynamically allocating node[116] in evaluate (int *node = malloc(116*sizeof(int));) also resolves the issue, but again I have no idea why?
Evaluate function: (I removed part of the code, otherwise it would be way too long)
void evaluate(int *parameter, int output[][16]) {
int node[116];
node[0] = 0;
output[0][0] = !node[0];
node[1] = parameter[0];
output[0][1] = !node[1];
output[0][2] = !node[0];
...
node[34] = !node[114] && !node[45];
node[45] = !node[34] && !node[105];
output[11][15] = node[45];
}
Main function:
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int i;
int j;
int k;
int ret;
int parameter[8];
int output[12][16];
FILE *paramFile;
FILE *outFile;
paramFile = fopen(argv[1], "r");
if (paramFile == NULL) {
printf("I couldn't open the parameter file.\n");
exit(0);
}
outFile = fopen(argv[2], "ab");
if (outFile == NULL) {
printf("Something went wrong with the output file.\n");
exit(0);
}
while(1){
for(i=0;i<8;i++){
ret=fscanf(paramFile, "%d", &parameter[i]);
printf("parameter: %d\n", parameter[i]);
}
if(ret!=1){
break;
}
for(j=0;j<12;j++){
for(k=0;k<16;k++){
output[j][k] = 2;
}
}
evaluate(parameter,output);
printf("Evaluation is done. \t %d\n",i);
for(j=0;j<12;j++){ //SEG FAULT HERE
for(k=0;k<16;k++){
fprintf(outFile, "%d", output[j][k]);
}
fprintf(outFile,"\n");
}
fprintf(outFile,"\n\n\n");
}
printf("Closing files\n");
fclose(paramFile);
fclose(outFile);
return 0;
}

Answer 1

First of all you should check if there is at least two argument. This can provoque a segmentation fault too.
if (argc < 3)
return -1;
Then, in evaluate, as they are fixe array you should pass in parameter
void evaluate(int parameter[8], int output[12][16]) {
...
}
You can also do this
void evaluate(int *parameter, int **output) {
...
}
I think the segfault can be avoid using one on this two declaration.