segmentation faults

Amanda Lee amanda at shellworld.net
Mon Aug 27 11:29:17 EDT 2001


How about a senario whereby  over running a loop or falling through to
code that you
shouldn't execute?  Would this cause this type of error or is it specific
to pointers?

Amanda Lee


On 27 Aug 2001, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> Hi Greg:  Segmentation faults are caused by pointers which are
> attempting to point outside of your allocated memory so the system is
> saying: Hey, you can't do that!  So, check your pointers because they're the suspects.
>
>   Kirk
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