What does segmentation violation mean?

[LadyFlamestress]

I'm just curious cause my program keeps saying it. I use a lot of pictures, so I'm thinking it's a memory thing. But how do I fix it?

[ecookman]

ive never heard of it but I will look into it.

[[Gandalf]]

That's a useless post if there ever was one, ecookman...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_fault

[rdrake]

Gandalf @ Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:01 pm wrote:

That's a useless post if there ever was one, ecookman...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_fault

QFT.

It basically means you're touching memory not allocated to you. Stop that.

[andrew.]

Sounds like you are using so much memory that it tries to write over a section where it's not allowed to.

[Tony]

Except that this is Turing, so chances are it's some internal error. There was another thread recently, where loading a faulty .gif file caused segmentation faults.

As with most bugs -- try to isolate where in your program this fault occurs.