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8 Shorter example 9 Another Short Example 10 Bus error from paging 11 Merge/unmerge to Segmentation fault Terminology[edit] Folks, what constitutes a Bus Error and what is a Segmentation Fault is system-dependent. Linux tends to use Segmentation Fault for things that on other systems might trigger a Bus Error. The article should clarify this. Secondly, the article gives the impression as bus error 10 mac if unaligned access typically raises a Bus Error to userland. This is not always true. Some architectures (like the 80386) don't raise an exception at all and handle it transparently, and on other systems it might be configurable. For example, on DEC Unix (Tru64) running on an Alpha, the kernel caught the exception and handled it itself. Typically only a message was printed but I think this could be switched off aswell. Unaligned access causing an error is otherwise typical of RISC processors, while classical CISC architectures transparently did the extra fetch (VAX, 80386). FWIW, the originaly MC68000 (often cited as a classical CISC implementation) used to choke on unaligned accesses also. Newer members of that family didn't, but it's worth pointing out that this isn't so much a RISC versus CISC issue. 87.194.160.244 (talk) 09:12, 29 May 2009 (UTC) Example[edit] Ummm... methinks that your C compiler will make things magically work. As the article mentions: alignment is only required on the *machine level*. However, if your compiler is sane, it seems obvious to me that it will simulat
article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) In computing, a segmentation fault (often shortened to segfault) or access violation is a fault fortran bus error raised by hardware with memory protection, notifying an operating system (OS) about a memory python bus error access violation; on x86 computers this is a form of general protection fault. The OS kernel will, in response, usually perform bus error (core dumped) ubuntu some corrective action, generally passing the fault on to the offending process by sending the process a signal. Processes can in some cases install a custom signal handler, allowing them to recover on their own,[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ABus_error but otherwise the OS default signal handler is used, generally causing abnormal termination of the process (a program crash), and sometimes a core dump. Segmentation faults are a common class of error in programs written in languages like C that provide low-level memory access. They arise primarily due to errors in use of pointers for virtual memory addressing, particularly illegal access. Another type of memory access error is a bus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_fault error, which also has various causes, but is today much rarer; these occur primarily due to incorrect physical memory addressing, or due to misaligned memory access – these are memory references that the hardware cannot address, rather than references that a process is not allowed to address. Newer programming languages may employ mechanisms designed to avoid segmentation faults and improve memory safety. For example, the Rust programming language employs an 'Ownership'[2] based model to ensure memory safety.[3] Contents 1 Overview 2 Causes 3 Handling 4 Examples 4.1 Writing to read-only memory 4.2 Null pointer dereference 4.3 Buffer overflow 4.4 Stack overflow 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Overview[edit] Example of human generated signal A null pointer dereference on Windows 8 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 (for example, attempting to write to a read-only location, or to overwrite part of the operating system). The term "segmentation" has various uses in computing; in the context of "segmentation fault", a term used since the 1950s, it refers to the address space of a program.[citation needed] With memory protection, only th
introducing more precise citations. (February 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) A page fault (sometimes called #PF, PF or hard fault[a]) is a type of interrupt, called trap, raised by computer hardware when a running program accesses a memory page that is mapped into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_fault the virtual address space, but not actually loaded into main memory. The hardware that detects a page fault is the processor's memory management unit (MMU), while the exception handling software that handles page faults is generally a part of the operating system kernel. When handling a page fault, the operating system generally tries to make the required page accessible at the location in physical memory, or terminates the program in case of an illegal memory access. Contrary to what "fault" might suggest, bus error valid page faults are not errors, and are common and necessary to increase the amount of memory available to programs in any operating system that utilizes virtual memory, including OpenVMS, Microsoft Windows, Unix-like systems (including Mac OS X, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX), and z/OS. Contents 1 Types 1.1 Minor 1.2 Major 1.3 Invalid 2 Invalid conditions 3 See also 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links Types[edit] Minor[edit] If the page is loaded in memory at the time the fault is bus error 10 generated, but is not marked in the memory management unit as being loaded in memory, then it is called a minor or soft page fault. The page fault handler in the operating system merely needs to make the entry for that page in the memory management unit point to the page in memory and indicate that the page is loaded in memory; it does not need to read the page into memory. This could happen if the memory is shared by different programs and the page is already brought into memory for other programs. The page could also have been removed from the working set of a process, but not yet written to disk or erased, such as in operating systems that use Secondary Page Caching. For example, HP OpenVMS may remove a page that does not need to be written to disk (if it has remained unchanged since it was last read from disk, for example) and place it on a Free Page List if the working set is deemed too large. However, the page contents are not overwritten until the page is assigned elsewhere, meaning it is still available if it is referenced by the original process before being allocated. Since these faults do not involve disk latency, they are faster and less expensive than major page faults. Major[edit] This is the mechanism used by an operating system to increase the amount of program memory available on demand. The operating system delays loading