#11079: SIGSEGV test throws SIGBUS instead on certain systems
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner: mvngu
Type: defect | Status: positive_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.7
Component: doctest | Keywords:
Author: Jeroen Demeyer | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: Karl-Dieter Crisman | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Description changed by jdemeyer:
Old description:
> In the file `sage/tests/interrupt.pyx` there is a test for a segmentation
> fault by explicitly dereferencing a NULL pointer. However, on some
> systems (at least Mac OS X 10.4 PPC) this generates a SIGBUS instead of a
> SIGSEGV.
New description:
In the file `sage/tests/interrupt.pyx` there is a test for a segmentation
fault by explicitly dereferencing a NULL pointer. However, on some
systems (Mac OS X 10.4 PPC and Mac OS X 10.5.8 Intel) this generates a
SIGBUS instead of a SIGSEGV.
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