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From: bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT edu (Jason M. Daniels)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Exceptions vs. Signals
Date: 29 May 1997 17:43:59 GMT
Organization: The Rio Grande Free-Net, El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX
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What is the difference between a Page Fault and a SIGSEGV? Why is it that 
SIGSEGV's display more information about the error than a Page Fault 
(most notably, a Page Fault doesn't give Call Frame Tracebacks). I'm 
writing a program, and it is generating Page Faults. Due to the lack of 
information given from this error, it is making it very hard to debug. :(

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