Original ticket http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1588 on 2010-08-20 by trac user bdkern, assigned to unknown.

import numpy
numpy.zeros((1,), dtype='>i2').clip(min=0)

segfaults on three systems tried: Ubuntu / Python 2.5.2 / Numpy 1.1.1, Red Hat / py 2.6.4 / np 1.3.0, WinXP / py 2.5.4 / np 1.3.0. This same setup also segfaults for dtypes '>f4', '>f8', etc.