> *-Alexander Gutfraind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | 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 -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
