Thread: Segmentation fault

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    What can cause segmentation fault? im making a server and after ~100 connections it shows that segmentation fault and exits...

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    All sorts of things
    - running off either end of allocated memory (trying to access the n'th index of an array with n elements)
    - using memory before you allocate it (usually an uninitialised or NULL pointer)
    - using memory after you've freed it (it might now belong to someone else)
    - freeing the same thing twice
    - freeing something which was never allocated

    If you're on Linux, you might try valgrind or electic fence to help you find the problem.
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