Unit tests and segfaults

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 06-12-2012 10:02, Russel Winder wrote:
> What is the right idiom for testing that a function call does segfault
> when you want it to?
>

There is basically no portable, clean way to do that. Why are you 
relying on segmentation faults? It's generally speaking a very bad idea 
because behavior depends entirely on the platform and architecture...

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