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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: segmentation fault
- Date: 4 Apr 1996 17:14:58 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4k1s6iINNaln@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
- References: <31636B02.55C6@cts.com> <4k04b8$fdp@castle.nando.net>
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- In article <4k04b8$fdp@castle.nando.net>,
- Bill McCarthy <actuary@nando.net> wrote:
- >In <31636B02.55C6@cts.com>, Frank Kragh <kragh@cts.com> writes:
- >>When running a program, (which didn't yield any errors during compiling),
- >>I get a "Segmentation fault". Anybody know what this is and/or what
- >>might be wrong with my program?
- >
- >You are propably attempting to access unallocated memory. Post some
- >complete but short code so we can see.
-
- Not necessarily. It could be that someone hacked his account and installed a
- program that does a ``kill -SEGV <pid>'', where <pid> is the instantaneous
- process ID of his programming project.
-
- BTW, not all SEGV signals that are caused by access violations are due to
- ``unallocated memory''.
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