Signal - SIGSEGV

There are two kinds of SEGV, which is an error that results from an invalid memory access:

1.A page was accessed which had the wrong permissions. E.g., it was read-only but your code tried to write to it. This will be reported as SEGV_ACCERR.

2.A page was accessed that is not even mapped into the address space of the application at all. This will often result from dereferencing a null pointer or a pointer that was corrupted with a small integer value. This is reported as SEGV_MAPERR.

Documentation of a sort (indexed Linux source code) for SEGV_MAPERR is here: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=SEGV_MAPERR.