Re: segfault: yes. what?
> *-Alexander Gutfraind <gutfrnd@tht.net>
> |
> | Hello Fello Users!
> |
> | I have a small completely newbie question:
> | What is segmentation fault AKA segfault?
>
> It means that the program has made an illegal memory access,
> for example trying to store in a region of memory it doesn't
> have permission to write to.
>
This commonly results from dereferencing a NULL pointer.
Matthew
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