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Re: Seg fault

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: "Priya Sinha" <pucsd dot priya at gmail dot com>
Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:04:10 +0000
Subject: Re: Seg fault
References: <c034dd010611270536m2cb627aeo6ae0cdacfc3c53d@mail.gmail.com>

Priya Sinha writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Does GCC give segmentation fault when an attempt is made to access
 > memory outside the process address space only or can this error be
 > generated even if an attempt is made to access any area within the
 > adress spaxce itself, for eg; the code area or the .ro section of the
 > process?

gcc doesn't do any of thse things.  SIGSEGV is generated by the
operating system kernel whenever an illegal memory access is detected.

Andrew.

References:
- Seg fault
  - From: Priya Sinha

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