diff -r 58eef400866e Doc/library/ctypes.rst
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst	Sat Mar 03 16:20:37 2012 +0000
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst	Sat Mar 03 11:52:35 2012 -0800
@@ -198,7 +198,8 @@
    >>>
 
 There are, however, enough ways to crash Python with :mod:`ctypes`, so you
-should be careful anyway.
+should be careful anyway.  For example, Python will not catch an
+exception due to a segmentation fault and will crash.
 
 ``None``, integers, bytes objects and (unicode) strings are the only native
 Python objects that can directly be used as parameters in these function calls.