A segmentation fault (often shortened to segfault) is a particular error condition that can occur during the operation of computer software. In short, a segmentation fault occurs when a program attempts to access a memory location that it is not allowed to access, or attempts to access a memory location in a way that is not allowed (e.g., attempts to write to a read-only location, or to overwrite part of the operating system). Systems based on processors like the Motorola 68000 tend to refer to these events as Address or Bus errors.
Segmentation is one approach to memory management and protection in the operating system. It has been superseded by paging for most purposes, but much of the terminology of segmentation is still used, "segmentation fault" being an example. Some operating systems still have segmentation at some logical level although paging is used as the main memory management policy.
On Unix-like operating systems, a process that accesses invalid memory receives the SIGSEGV signal. On Microsoft Windows, a process that accesses invalid memory receives the STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION exception.
xiaosuo@gentux test $ gcc -g -rdynamic d.c xiaosuo@gentux test $ gdb ./a.out GNU gdb 6.5 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread (gdb) r Starting program: /home/xiaosuo/test/a.out Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x08048524 in dummy_function () at d.c:4 4 *ptr = 0x00; (gdb)
The default action of certain signals is to cause a process to terminate and produce a core dump file, a disk file containing an image of the process's memory at the time of termination. A list of the signals which cause a process to dump core can be found in signal(7).
xiaosuo@gentux test $ gdb ./a.out core GNU gdb 6.5 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread. warning: Can't read pathname for load map: 輸入/輸出錯誤。 Reading symbols from /lib/lib6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/li6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.s2 Core was generated by `./a.out'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x08048524 in dummy_function () at d.c:4 4 *ptr = 0x00;dfg
分析工具
利用backtrace和objdump進行分析
#include <execinfo.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <signal.h>
/* A dummy function to make the backtrace more interesting. */