Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 17:12:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does 'segment fault' mean? Message-ID: <19980505171252.W4777@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <354EA035.75EE752@ms11.hinet.net>; from Doug Lo on Tue, May 05, 1998 at 01:14:29PM %2B0800 References: <354EA035.75EE752@ms11.hinet.net>
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On Tue, 5 May 1998 at 13:14:29 +0800, Doug Lo wrote: > Hi, > > I'd be glad if anyone could explain one aspect of unix is puzzling me: > When I run some programs, it got an error: "Segment fault". > I don't know how/why it happened, would anyone tell me the 'Segment > fault' mean? I suppose you mean Segmentation Fault. It means that the program tried to access non-existent or non-accessible memory. This is almost always a program bug, though it could also happen as the result of a swap allocation failure. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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