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Re: Segmentation fault - meaning



On Thursday 08 January 2004 00:05, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra 
wrote:
> > I try to run it on the laptop I get a segmentation fault.  What does
> > that mean, and what sorts of things might cause it?
> This is a but, plain and simple.  It means that the program tried to
> access some protected memory segment.

Worst case scenario, this could also mean your RAM is bad.  If you want to 
rule out this possibility, google for memtest - a bootable image that stress 
tests your RAM.

Hans



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