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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Dec 11 14:37:39 CET 2008

<skip pobox.com> writes:

I understand. The guy has a problem today for which there is a solution that I posted. If he's "been meaning to look into the problem" and he's posting to python-dev I presume he knows at least a little about running gdb if he's operating in a Unix environment. These two gdb commands source .gdbinit pystack shouldn't be too much of a barrier.

Well, but sometimes you don't have a core file (because you didn't run ulimit before launching Python and the crash wasn't expected; if the crash is very erratic, by the time you've fixed the system limits, you don't manage to reproduce it anymore, or it takes hours because it's at the end of a very long workload). Sometimes you don't have the gdbinit file around (for example, Mandriva doesn't ship it with any Python-related package). Sometimes you are under Windows.

etc. :-)

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