Issue #20666 has been updated by alanwu (Alan Wu). Status changed from Open to Feedback With big and complex native extensions like SWIG, the problem is probably not in Ruby itself. The reproducer you provide is also probably too large to expect volunteers to diagnose. Maybe you should report this to SWIG, or minimize the reproducer to demonstrate that it happens without SWIG? ---------------------------------------- Bug #20666: Segmentation fault instead of LoadError exception https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20666#change-109360 * Author: ErezGeva2@gmail.com (Erez Geva) * Status: Feedback * ruby -v: ruby 3.2.5 (2024-07-26 revision 31d0f1a2e7) [x64-mingw-ucrt] * Backport: 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- Using ruby -v ruby 3.2.5 (2024-07-26 revision 31d0f1a2e7) [x64-mingw-ucrt] From [GitHub windows 2022](https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/windows/Windows202... ) We run the SWIG test: [import_fragments](https://github.com/swig/swig/blob/master/Examples/test-suite/ruby/import_fra...) The test try to load a broken library, which should rise a `LoadError`. begin require 'import_fragments' rescue LoadError => e # due to missing import_fragments_a exception_file = e.respond_to?(:path) ? e.path : e.to_s.sub(/.* -- /, '') end Instead `LoadError` exception we get `Segmentation fault`: <internal:C:/hostedtoolcache/windows/Ruby/3.2.5/x64/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:151: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 3.2.5 (2024-07-26 revision 31d0f1a2e7) [x64-mingw-ucrt] -- Control frame information ----------------------------------------------- c:0004 p:0018 s:0028 e:000025 RESCUE <internal:C:/hostedtoolcache/windows/Ruby/3.2.5/x64/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:151 c:0003 p:0275 s:0022 e:000021 METHOD <internal:C:/hostedtoolcache/windows/Ruby/3.2.5/x64/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:40 c:0002 p:0011 s:0007 E:0004e8 EVAL ./import_fragments_runme.rb:13 [FINISH] c:0001 p:0000 s:0003 E:0006e0 DUMMY [FINISH] -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/