From:	Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
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Subject:	Re: Segmentation faults
Date:	22 Oct 1998 09:53:12 GMT
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LupusNoctus (ummurr03 AT NOSPAMcc DOT umanitoba DOT ca) wrote:
: What are they?  and what causes them at runtime?

: I know I'm not going past the end of my datafile,
: so it must be something to do with the strange recursion I have.

: All I really need to know is what causes a Seg. fault, but if anyone
: needs my source to be more specific, just lemme know by posting a
: reply

There are a lot of reasons, but the most usual one is that you are 
accessing memory you shouldn't access. NULL pointer deference e. g. 


Right,

							MartinS

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