Welcome to the next pikoTutorial! nullptr and the segmentation fault One of the first things that beginner C++ programmers realize after starting to play around with pointers is that dereferencing a nullptr leads to an immediate program crash caused by the segmentation fault. This leads to a common belief that…
segmentation fault
Bug of the week #5
A segmentation fault, often referred to as a ‘segfault,’ is a specific kind of error encountered in computing when a program tries to access a memory location that it is not allowed to access.