Segmentation fault (core dumped)

heyyyyy that kept happening to me in the lab

turns out the power pc was dying, or something

but maintenance replaced it and we are good now

:D
 
link_ said:
Thanks interesting Eggi. First time i've heard of a seg fault being caused by hardware failure.
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Well it makes sense really. All it means is that the program is acessing memory that belongs to someone else. Usually it means something silly like trying to run functions on a null pointer or an array out of bounds, but if the OS is hosed and isn't reporting memory bounds correctly, a lot of things could seg fault.

I feel bad for that sysadmin though, I can see a bunch of retarded CS101 students going "But I heard the computer is broken if I get a seg fault!"
 
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