Thread: Long Question about Portability

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    Long Question about Portability

    There's a scripting language, called NerveBreak, which compiles & runs fine on Windows and Linux. However, on MacOS X, it compiles but gives a "Segmentation Fault" error when I try to run a script. I need to know this: what kind of programming error causes a "Segmentation Fault"?
    01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110100 01101111 01101111 1101011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101101 01110101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 00100000 01011001 01101000 01101001 01110011 00111111 00100000 01000100 01100001 01101101 01101110 00100001 00000000

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    Accessing memory outside your given "segment". More commonly, and more specificly, over or undershooting the bounds of an array, or using a pointer which has been uninitialized, dereferencing a null pointer, or something along those lines.

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