Thread: Seg Fault on Trivial Pointer assignment?

Hi,
I am compiling the following simple program on g++ under cygwin:
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Code:

#include<stdlib.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
	int *p;
	*p = 0;
}

The compilation is fine, but I get a seg fault on the line *p = 0 at run-time and I have no idea why.

GDB gives:
Starting program: /home/David/basic.out
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/kernel32.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/advapi32.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/rpcrt4.dll

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0040107d in main () at basicTest.c:8
8 *p = 1;


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave.

Thank you!!