I am relatively new on C, I am trying to run a simple program and I get this Error message: Segmentation fault (core dumped) I just want to print any value of the array bits but I can not, I'd appreciate any help on this error.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <malloc.h>
int main()
{
const long int N = 1000000000;
const int smallN = 125000000;
char bits[smallN];
for(int i=0; i<smallN; i++){
bits[i]=0xff;
}
printf("character = %c \n", bits[5]);
}
The array seems to be exceeding the stack size (bits is an array on the stack). You can either try making it global or allocating the array using malloc.