"Simon Forman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> pycraze wrote:
>> I would like to ask a question. How do one handle the exception due to
>> Segmentation fault due to Python ? Our bit operations and arithmetic
>> manipulations are written in C and to some of our testcases we
>> experiance Segmentation fault from the python libraries.
>>
>> If i know how to handle the exception for Segmentation fault , it will
>> help me complete the run on any testcase , even if i experiance Seg
>> Fault due to any one or many functions in my testcase.
>
> AFAIK, seg fault kills your program dead. There's no exception to
> handle. If you're getting seg faults from the python standard library,
> that's a pretty serious thing, way more serious than just not-passed
> testcases.
Segfault handling is platform-dependant... So, at least on unix-like
platform, you can use the signal module to detect segfault:
import signal
def handler(signum, frame):
print 'Segfault detected'
# you may use the stack frame here to help debugging
signal.signal(signal.SIGSEGV, handler)
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