[Python-Dev] segmentation fault with python2.3a0 from cvs

[Guido van Rossum]

> However, running python 2.3 under valgrind produces floods of
> 'invalid read' and 'conditional depends on uninitialized value'
> errors before we ever get to the prompt, so this may well be a
> system-independent bug that only happens to expose itself on cygwin.

Are you sure these aren't false alarms?  I believe I tried valgrind
once on Python and every lead it gave me was a false alarm or
something in libc. :-(

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)