On 21 February 2013 18:24, David Malcolm <dmalcolm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 08:04 +0000, Ian Malone wrote: >> On 19 February 2013 12:13, David Malcolm <dmalcolm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Question: does a python segfault from a broken script indicate a >> python bug as well? The scripting engine shouldn't really be crashing. > > python -c "from ctypes import string_at; string_at(0xDEADBEEF)" > Point. I could try and argue that a scripting language should stop you doing this by catching it somehow, but that's unrealistic for this case and, as you (sorry, not 100% sure, but going to guess you're the same DMalcolm) say here, http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/4545.html it's a consequence of being able to run native code. Could also be viewed as a bug in the bindings rather than python, but, again, it's what they're supposed to do. However hopefully most python programmes aren't doing things like this. And of course it'll be better all round if the bugs go to the programme that caused them. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
