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Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

what r the situations to receive an error msg like the one below

Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
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Old 01-20-2006
Generally such Segmentation Fault (core dumped) errors are caused by addressing non-existent/allocated memory. Here's a few links:

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Cheers,

Keith
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Old 01-20-2006
Trying to read from an illegal memory location will cause this fault. i.e.

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1. If you fopen a file, it fails and the file pointer returned is NULL and you try to read from that file pointer. This will give you a segmentation fault.
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