---
name: "catchsegv"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libc-bin"
version: "2.31-13+deb11u11"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/catchsegv"
---

# catchsegv(1)

Catch segmentation faults in programs

## NAME

catchsegv - Catch segmentation faults in programs

## SYNOPSIS

**catchsegv** *program* \[*args*\]

## DESCRIPTION

Used to debug segmentation faults in programs.  The output is the content of registers, plus a backtrace.  Basically you call your program and its arguments as the arguments to catchsegv.

## AUTHOR

*catchsegv* was written by Ulrich Drepper for the GNU C Library

This man page was written by Ben Collins \<bcollins@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.