Segmentation fault details?

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From: Wang Yi
Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 11:55 pm

Hi, all!

 I'd like to know some details about segmentation fault.
 What I mean is when a program accesses invalid memory area, it will
get a SIGSEGV signal from kernel, and a message "Segmentation fault".

 I also find that dmesg can show we something like this:
 ProgramName[Pid]: segfault at xxxx eip xxxx esp xxxx error x
 It is useful and provides the first-step information for further
debug/analysis.

 My question is how dmesg gets the information, and if there are any
"decent" way to get this and maybe more information(An "indecent" way
I came to is grep dmesg)
so that I can perform some basic auto analysis.

 Thank you.

Leo
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