segmentation faults

[Kirk Reiser]

If you overrun a loop to the point of it trying to leave your memory
space then you'll get a segfault.  If it just trashes your data space
you won't.  Once again your code attempting to execute code which
isn't yours to execute is basically the same thing.  Unix/linux
absolutely will not let you move outside of your allocated space in
any way.  That's one of the reasons it's so stable relative to other
os's we know.

  Kirk

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Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061