Segmentation Fault
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Information Taken From wikipedia.com
A segmentation fault (sometimes referred to as segfault or a SIGSEGV for short) is a particular error condition that can occur during the operation of computer software. In short, a segmentation fault occurs when a program attempts to access a memory location that it is not allowed to access, or attempts to access a memory location in a way it is not allowed to (eg, attempts to write a read-only location).
Example
Here is an example of an ANSI C program that should create a segmentation fault on most platforms with memory protection:
#include <string.h>
int main()
{
memset((char *)0x0, 42, 200);
}
Compiling and running it on Linux produces the following:
% gcc -o segfault segfault.c % ./segfault Segmentation fault %
Backtrace from gdb:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x40089357 in memset () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x40089357 in memset () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x40012280 in _rtld_global () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #2 0x080483b0 in main ()
