Re: core dump

you are writing beyond the array bounds.. VERY BAD programming practice.
It overwrites something else.

Sudharsha Wijesinghe wrote:

>I wrote the following code 
>int void main()
>{
>int buff[4096],i;
>for(i=0;i<8000;i++)
>buff[i]=i;
>return 0;
>}
>and compliled it with gcc 
>executable file created.
>when I run it
>#./a.out
>I would get a segment fault
>it does not create a core dump.
>Does any one know why it is?
>Thanks in advance
>Sudharsha.
>
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