[Python-Dev] Trap SIGSEGV and SIGFPE (original) (raw)

Simon Cross hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 08:21:32 CET 2008

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:

Recover after a segfault is dangerous, but my first goal was to get the Python backtrace instead just one line: "Segmentation fault". It helps a lot for debug!

This would be extremely useful. I've had PyGTK segfault on me a number of times in an app I'm writing and I keep meaning to try get to the bottom of the issue but it happens infrequently and somehow I never get around to it. Some indictation of what Python was executing when the segfault occurred would help narrow now the possibilities rapidly.

Schiavo Simon

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