Issue 19401: Segmentation fault with float arithmatics on OS X Mavericks
$ uname -a Darwin foobar 13.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 $ python Python 2.7.5 (v2.7.5:ab05e7dd2788, May 13 2013, 13:18:45) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 11 * 1.1 12.100000000000001 >>> 11 * 1.2 Segmentation fault: 11 This is python.org build installed with the Mac installer.