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Subject: Re: Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV
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Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:15:19 GMT
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Michael Yuen wrote:
> 
> I'm writing a small little program and i'm constantly getting the
> error message:
> 
> "exiting due to signal SIGSEGV"
> 
> I believe this message is telling me something about attempting to
> access an invalid pointer or something.

My crystal ball tells me you are doing pointer arithmetic or
indexing of uninitialized pointers in line 1414.

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