[SDL] Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)

[benang at cs.its.ac.id]

Thanks. I've tried using gdb. But I can't recreate the bug. Even when I
tried clicking at the same time as when the bug last occurs, it still
didn't appear. I'm still confused right now.

Alberto Luaces said:
> El Miércoles, 21 de Febrero de 2007 14:34, benang at cs.its.ac.id escribió:
>> 1. What caused the SDL Parachute error?
>
> To simplify this topic a little bit, I would say that a segmentation fault
> means your that program tried to read or write a piece of memory not of
> its
> ownership. It is a very common mistake, mainly caused by incorrect
> handling
> of pointers. Or maybe you are also sending incorrect data to other
> librarie's
> functions, and so on.
>
>> 2. Why was it appear random ?
>
> You are likely reading or writing a part of the memory through a wrong
> array
> index or pointer. Whenever the index or the pointer is correct, no error
> is
> generated.
>
> You can run the program in the debugger and look at the backtrace when
> your
> program crashes to know what part of the code is buggy.
>
> HTH,
>
> Alberto
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