As the article notes, the -V suffix is a historical curiosity. Since no contract is being violated here, the term “violation” does not make sense. This is nothi

As the article notes, the -V suffix is a historical curiosity. Since no contract is being violated here, the term “violation” does not make sense. This is nothing more than a fault condition, like trying to open a file that does not exist or trying to go to a webpage that does not exist. The contract with the OS is that if you access unmapped memory, your program is sent SIGSEGV. Just like the contract with open() is that it returns -1 if the file is not found.