[Python-Dev] News of the faulthandler project

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:52:40 +0100
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> Le jeudi 03 février 2011 à 12:22 -0500, Reid Kleckner a écrit :
> > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Victor Stinner
> > <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> > >  - SIGABRT is not handled
> > 
> > Why not?
> 
> Just because I forgot to handle it. But I don't know if it is a good
> thing to display the Python backtrace on abort() or not. Python uses
> abort() on Py_FatalError().

I think that precisely makes it a good idea.  It's much better to know
where a fatal error was triggered from if you want to have a chance of
at least working around it.

Regards

Antoine.