Cyclic garbage collection and segfaults...
Michael Hudson
mwh at python.net
Thu Jan 15 06:15:51 EST 2004
"Thomas Mailund" <mailund at birc.dk> writes:
> Hi group.
>
> I have a problem with some C extensions I am working with and
> hope that some of you can help.
[snippety]
> static void
> Simple_dealloc(SimpleObject *self)
> {
> fprintf(stderr,"Simple_dealloc %p\n", self);
> self->ob_type->tp_free((PyObject*)self); /* <= segfault here */
Well, you're calling tp_free from a tp_dealloc. That doesn't *sound*
sensible to me.
> Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong? Or perhaps suggest a better
> solution to my "real" problem, if I'm approaching the problem completely
> wrong :-)
There are docs on this sort of thing.
Cheers,
mwh
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