* Seneca Cunningham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011218 18:59]:
> [what causes segmentation faults?]
The short answer is: "a bug in the program." A correctly-written program
should never die with a segmentation violation. If you're just a user,
and not a programmer, that's probab
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:59:19PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
[what causes a segmentation fault]
A segmentation fault (also called a seg fault, or SEGV) occurs when a
program tries to access memory it is not allowed to access. For
example dereferencing a null pointer, or dereferencing a poin
On my machine, two or three different programs have given me segmentation
faults. The two that I remember are Enlightenment and bwBASIC. The
segmentation fault in Enlightenment only happened once, and Enlightenment
was removed soon thereafter.
In bwBASIC, however, I was able to reproduce the fault
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