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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!worldnet.att.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!204.177.172.254!news.eden.com!interval.net!arlut.utexas.edu!usenet From: Ian Fink <fink@arlut.utexas.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Segmentation fault Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 10:45:32 -0600 Organization: Applied Research Laboratories - The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 15 Message-ID: <32B81FAC.AB0@arlut.utexas.edu> References: <32B72FEF.41C67EA6@banking.interest.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seadevil.arlut.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/730) To: Dan Eaton <eaton@banking.interest.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5461 Dan Eaton wrote: > > What is Segementation fault and how does one fix it? > Thank, Dan You probrably have a memory leak.... One cause: writing to memory you don't own. You might run gdb on your program that gives you that error to see what the offending function is. And compile it with the -g flag if you can :) Ian Fink