On Friday, October 7, 2016 at 5:18:11 AM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:24 PM, dieter wrote: > > Memory allocations are frequent (in many places) and they fail rarely. > > Therefore, there is quite a high probability that some of those > > allocations fail to check that the allocation has been successful. > > If this happens (and the allocation fails), then a "SIGSEGV" is > > almost certain. > > Which, BTW, doesn't stop them from being bugs. If this can be pinned > down, it definitely warrants a bugs.python.org issue. > > ChrisA
Thanks. I can make a test case. It doesn't look like it has been reported before; I'll add an issue once I can reproduce. --tim -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list