>> Do you have an example bug where this patch helps in finding the precise >> location of a segfault? > > How is 'line 29 in g' not more precise than 'Segmentation fault'?
I think Stefan is treating "precise location" as an absolute property, not a relative one. The precise location would be the very instruction causing the fault; this is something that a core dump provides, unless a signal handler interferes with that. In many crashes I fixed, the Python stack trace was irrelevant to understand the nature of the crash. Of course, there were also counter- examples where you'ld need the Python stack (or, rather, the entire interpreter trace) to understand how the crashing case can occur in the first place. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
