[docs] [issue13951] Seg Fault in .so called by ctypes causes the interpreter to Seg Fault

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Should it seg fault or just throw an exception?

Python cannot do anything useful on such fatal error. In Python 3.3, there is a faulthandler module which can help to debug: it dumps the traceback of all threads on such fatal error. It is also available as a third party module on PyPI:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/faulthandler

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nosy: +haypo

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