What is a segmentation fault?

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bhajendra

Posted On: May 29, 2021

 

Segmentation fault is a specific kind of error caused by accessing memory that “does not belong to you” and therefore causes programs to crash. It generally occurs when a program tries to read or write an illegal memory location.

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