GCC can't do that but GDB (a debugger) sure can. Compile you program using the -g switch, like this:

gcc program.c -g

Then use gdb:

$ gdb ./a.out
(gdb) run
<segfault happens here>
(gdb) backtrace
<offending code is shown here>

Here is a nice tutorial to get you started with GDB.

Where the segfault occurs is generally only a clue as to where "the mistake which causes" it is in the code. The given location is not necessarily where the problem resides.

Here is a sample program that would definitely cause segmentation fault :

include

int main() {
    int *pVal = NULL;

    printf("ptr value is : %d", *pVal);
    return 0;
}

You need to compile in debug mode in order to add additional debug information in executable file:

gcc -g segFault.c

Then all you need is to run gdb and give that the executable file path (i.e a.out in this case). Then by just running it you can see that gdb highlights the line causing segmentation fault.

 ~/Dropbox/cprog/demos : $ gdb a.out
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Reading symbols from a.out...Reading symbols from /Users/rohankumar/Dropbox/cprog/demos/a.out.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/a.out...done.
done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /Users/rohankumar/Dropbox/cprog/demos/a.out

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000100000f62 in main () at segFault.c:6
6       printf("ptr value is : %d", *pVal);

You can also print the values and see stacktrace of program. You can read more about gdb here .

Happy coding!