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# EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

A memory segmentation fault terminated the process,
often because the process tried to
access an invalid or out-of-bounds address in memory.

## Discussion

Common problems include
accessing an invalid index in an array,
dereferencing a pointer to an invalid memory location,
or writing to read-only memory.

For more information,
see [Investigating memory access crashes](/documentation/Xcode/investigating-memory-access-crashes).

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