From: ummurr03 AT NOSPAMcc DOT umanitoba DOT ca (LupusNoctus) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Segmentation faults Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:06:01 GMT Organization: The University of Manitoba Lines: 29 Sender: ummurr03 AT spc-isp-wpg-uas-01-34 DOT sprint DOT ca Message-ID: <36303b16.19742477@news.cc.umanitoba.ca> References: <3632e49f DOT 28421782 AT news DOT cc DOT umanitoba DOT ca> <70mva8$peh$1 AT antares DOT lu DOT erisoft DOT se> NNTP-Posting-Host: spc-isp-wpg-uas-01-34.sprint.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com So, how does accessing that memory occur? I'm using the Vector class, so I shouldn't be able to go beyond the edges of my 2dimentional array Seems to happen during my recursive loop, but the base cases are clearly defined and easily found when stepping thru the loops. On 22 Oct 1998 09:53:12 GMT, Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg) wrote: >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