[Solved] Pointer making C program to crash

Question

First line: You create a pointer variable to a char, then you initialize it to address zero (NULL pointer).

Second line: you try to write a zero to the address where pointer is pointing to.
Address zero is outside of your process’ writable virtual memory area, so you get a segmentation fault.

Accepted Answer

First line: You create a pointer variable to a char, then you initialize it to address zero (NULL pointer).

Second line: you try to write a zero to the address where pointer is pointing to.
Address zero is outside of your process’ writable virtual memory area, so you get a segmentation fault.