Re: Segmentation Fault

[Tim Roberts]

Craig wrote:
> I am working on a large score (choral symphony).  When I include my tuba
> part I am getting a segmentation fault.  What does this mean?
>
> Wouldn't segmentation have to do with a memory issue?

Well, the term is a leftover from the earliest days of Unix, when it ran
on machines that did have segmented memory.  Today, that error code
means the application used an invalid address, or memory that had
already been released, or a null pointer, something like that.

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Tim Roberts, address@hidden
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.