Segmentation Fault

[Steve Holden]

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.
> 
You will observe, if you look at the list of Python exceptions, that a 
segfault isn't among them. A segfault is a trap to the hardware, and 
generally indicates that a program is so badly hosed that it wouldn't 
make much sense to rely on any further computation in it.

regards
  Steve
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