[Numpy-discussion] segfault in numpy.float64(z) for complex z

[Travis Oliphant]

Tim Leslie wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>While debugging a scipy crash I came across the problem outlined in
>
>http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/412
>
>Could someone shed some light on why this is happening, I got a bit
>lost in the numpy internals when I tried to track it down.
>
>  
>

Recent changes to arrtype_new no doubt.   If somebody with a non-SVN 
version of numpy could verify that would be great.

I suspect an error condition is not being trapped correctly.

-Travis