Determine the line of code that causes a segmentation fault?

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GCC can’t do that but GDB (a debugger) sure can. Compile you program using the -g switch, like this:

gcc program.c -g

Then use gdb:

$ gdb ./a.out
(gdb) run
<segfault happens here>
(gdb) backtrace
<offending code is shown here>

Here is a nice tutorial to get you started with GDB.

Where the segfault occurs is generally only a clue as to where “the mistake which causes” it is in the code. The given location is not necessarily where the problem resides.

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