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This is raised when the program attempts has a bad memory reference such as:
* Address not mapped to object (accessing memory that isn't mapped)
* Invalid Permission for mapped object (accessing memory that permissions deny).
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+This is almost invariably a programming fault.
The default action for this signal is to cause the program to terminate and dump core.
A classic example is to deference a pointer in [C] that is either uninitialised, or has already been freed. Here is some C code:
