Miki Tebeka added the comment:

Because it hangs Python :)

I know, "while 1: pass" also hangs Python, however it'll nice
if this behaviour was documented or (IMO better) that Python will
raise an InvalidArgument exception on SIGSEGV (like it does for SIGKILL).

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