I’m just starting with C programming (following along with ‘C The Hard Way’) – anytime I try to run valgrind I’m getting Segmentation fault in terminal right off the bat.
I’ve installed and reinstalled valgrind
Any suggestions here?
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I’m just starting with C programming (following along with ‘C The Hard Way’) – anytime I try to run valgrind I’m getting Segmentation fault in terminal right off the bat.
I’ve installed and reinstalled valgrind
Any suggestions here?
Valgrind should never segfault – every (even buggy) program should be run and problems intercepted.
If you get segfaults even for innocuous commands like
valgrind true, I suggest you to download precompiled valgrind binaries for your OS, presumably with its package manager. Similar problems with compilation sometimes happen (could be bugs in the compiler, incompatibilities between the sources and the compiler, bad libraries…). You probably don’t want to dig into this if you’re still learning.If valgrind merely reports a segfault in your program, post its messages. It means you have a bug in your program.