From: Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Segmentation faults Date: 22 Oct 1998 09:53:12 GMT Organization: Ericsson Erisoft AB, Sweden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <70mva8$peh$1@antares.lu.erisoft.se> References: <3632e49f DOT 28421782 AT news DOT cc DOT umanitoba DOT ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: mars.lu.erisoft.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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