How about a senario whereby over running a loop or falling through to code that you shouldn't execute? Would this cause this type of error or is it specific to pointers? Amanda Lee On 27 Aug 2001, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Hi Greg: Segmentation faults are caused by pointers which are > attempting to point outside of your allocated memory so the system is > saying: Hey, you can't do that! So, check your pointers because they're the suspects. > > Kirk > > -- > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >