debugging a c module?

Will Ware wware at alum.mit.edu
Wed Sep 5 19:47:59 EDT 2001


Agent Drek wrote:

> ...I'm pretty sure
> that this is because I've screwed up a reference count somewhere in the
> module. How do I go about debugging this? I'm using Python-2.1.1...
> Recompile python and the module with debugging? gdb?

This is a trick I used once with Python 1.5.2. You could give it a try.
You won't need gdb, but it will require recompiling Python with
Py_DEBUG on, which enables some C macros in the code.


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