Seg fault

[Andrew Haley]

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.