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What is a segmentation fault?

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What is a segmentation fault? Is it different in C and C++? How are segmentation faults and dangling pointers related?

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  segmentation fault makes the compiler feel bad. – Benjamin Crouzier Sep 12 '11 at 14:32 

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  If that's the case, why in my case the compiler complained nothing, it all went smooth, but at run time the system throws a segmentation fault (core dump)? T_T – Jim Raynor Jan 5 '15 at 19:46

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  Just a memory dump when something goes wrong! – resultsway Apr 25 '15 at 1:18 

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  @pinouchon: Funny, but when does a compiler have a thing to do with seg faults? Isn't it mo