What Is a General Protection Fault?

A general protection fault is an error that occurs when a PC user program attempts to access an inaccessible address.

General protection fault ( GPF ) is in

The operating system generally divides the memory into different areas. Some areas are only used by the operating system, and some systems are used by application programs. When an application attempts to access an area of memory allocated to it, the operating system will suspend the running of the program, and the user gets a line

In some versions of Microsoft Windows, general protection faults are indeed reported as "general protection faults".
But in most versions, Windows will give the following error:

• Unrecoverable Application Error. (Windows 3.0)

• [Program] has caused a General Protection Fault in module [module] at [memory address]. (Windows 3.1 and 3.1x)

• The program has performed an illegal operation and is about to close. (Windows 9x & Windows NT 4.0)

• [Program] An error occurred and will be closed by Windows. (Windows 2000)

• [Program] has caused an error in [Module]. [Program] will now close. (Windows Me)

• [Procedure / Description] Encounter a problem and need to close. We apologize for the inconvenience. (Windows XP)

• [Program / description] has stopped working. (Windows Vista and Windows 7)

On Unix-like systems, this error is reported separately (such as a segmentation fault under Linux, etc.) ^[1] .