Why can't I cause a seg fault?

Question

OK for whatever reason I\'m having trouble causing a seg fault. I want to produce one so that I can use gdb to see how to debug one. I have tried both examples

Answer 1

Lots of ways to generate a segfault.

Like dereferencing a bad pointer:

char *s = (char *)0xDEADBEEF;
*s = 'a';