In C programming, a segmentation fault is a type of error caused if you try to access memory that “does not belong to you.”
When your code tries to perform read and write operation in a read-only location in memory or freed block of memory, this segmentation fault occurs.
Common Segmentation fault scenarios:
- Modifying a string Literal
- Trying to access an address that is freed
- Accessing out of array index bounds
- Improper use of scanf()
- Stack Overflow
- Dereferencing uninitialized pointer
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