Help! Python either hangs or core dumps when calling C malloc

[Fredrik Lundh]

Lil wrote:'

>I already double checked my C code. It runs perfectly fine in C without
> any errors. So in my python program, I added a pdb.set_trace()
> and step through the program and it did not dump. But when i took out
> the tracing, the core dump came back. "sigh"

so triple-check it.

if your code overwrites the malloc buffer, it's perfectly possible
that it appears to run fine when you run it standalone or under the
debugger, but that doesn't mean that your code is fine.

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