From b33c6eb6400c8ecdb33a2a0f0f81f9d2c282cff5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 10:51:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Closes #13951: Add a "faulthandler" reference in the ctypes
 docs talking about crashes.

---
 Doc/library/ctypes.rst | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
index 33ff12bcfc0..a6c918deb4e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -198,7 +198,9 @@ argument values::
    >>>
 
 There are, however, enough ways to crash Python with :mod:`ctypes`, so you
-should be careful anyway.
+should be careful anyway.  The :mod:`faulthandler` module can be helpful in
+debugging crashes (e.g. from segmentation faults produced by erroneous C library
+calls).
 
 ``None``, integers, bytes objects and (unicode) strings are the only native
 Python objects that can directly be used as parameters in these function calls.