Error handling in CUDA extensions within the MoonEP library, specifically the premature termination of Python processes due to uncatchable CUDA errors.
Raw Developer Origin & Technical Request
GitHub Issue
Jul 28, 2026
## Problem
The CUDA extension's `CUCHECK` and `CUDACHECK` macros print an error and call
`exit(EXIT_FAILURE)`. Any checked CUDA driver or runtime failure therefore
terminates the Python process from inside the library.
```text
Python caller --> pybind binding --> CUDA error --> exit()
|
`--> process ends
```
The caller cannot catch the error, attach operation context, clean up its own
state, or coordinate an orderly distributed shutdown.
## Reproduction
Pass `nvl_multicast_import` a valid POSIX file descriptor for `/dev/null`. The
descriptor is valid at the OS boundary but is not a CUDA-exported shareable
allocation, so the CUDA import call returns an error.
On an H100 NVL with `origin/master`, the child process printed the old macro's
CUDA error and exited with status 1. The parent regression failed because no
Python exception was catchable:
```text
assert result.returncode == 0
actual returncode: 1
stderr: Failed: CUDA error ... 'invalid device ordinal'
```
This is a defined error path: it does not fabricate or reinterpret an opaque
CUDA allocation handle.
## Expected behavior
- Checked CUDA calls raise a Python-visible `RuntimeError` through pybind.
- The message identifies the failed expression, symbolic error name, numeric
code, and CUDA description when available.
- Partially acquired VMM resources are released while the C++ stack unwinds.
- Successful allocation, map...
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