A segmentation fault (often shortened to segfault) is a particular error condition that can occur during the operation of computer software. A segmentation fault occurs when a program attempts to access a memory location that it is not allowed to access, or attempts to access a memory location in a way that is not allowed (for example, attempting to write to a read-only location, or to overwrite part of the operating system). Systems based on processors like the Motorola 68000 tend to refer to these events as address or bus errors.
Segmentation is one approach to memory management and protection in the operating system. It has been superseded by paging for most purposes, but much of the terminology of segmentation is still used, "segmentation fault" being an example. Some operating systems still have segmentation at some logical level although paging is used as the main memory management policy.
On Unix-like operating systems, a process that accesses invalid memory receives the SIGSEGV signal. On Microsoft Windows, a process that accesses invalid memory receives the STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION exception, and usually a window asking the user to send an error report to Microsoft appears.
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Well, worth learning huh?
That's the error I got when running Matt to align 3 pdb structures. Omg, how can I fix such a mass of c library without no knowledge about the language? Hehe, the final way is nothing other than emailing the author. OMG, I' ve just remember that the author was not at the same institute when he wrote this any longer. OMG, then... what to do next???
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