Behaviour in Specific Operating Systems
In Microsoft Windows, the general protection fault presents with varied language, depending on product version:
- Unrecoverable Application Error. (Windows 3.0)
- has caused a General Protection Fault in module at . (Windows 3.1 and 3.1x)
- This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. (Windows 9x & Windows NT 4.0)
- has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. (Windows 2000)
- has caused an error in . will now close. (Windows Me)
- has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. (Windows XP)
- has stopped working. (Windows Vista and Windows 7)
In systems such as Unix and Linux, the errors are reported separately (e.g. segmentation fault for memory errors).
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