[C++-sig] string being deleted causes crash

[andrew]

My strings are unicode, and I isolate the problem to the following:

The error only occurs if the string is greater in length than 7
If they are less than or equal to 7 in length than it is fine.


Andrew

andrew wrote:

> I'm using boost python 1.31.0, python 2.2/2.3 (both had the same 
> problem), and msvc7 to wrap up my library.  I'm in Windows XP
>
> I have many functions that takes a std::wstring, sometimes in random 
> different places the program crashes.
>
> If I run it with MSVC's debugger, I find that the passed string is 
> attempting to be deleted.
>
> I have found that my problem is the same as described here:  
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/c++-sig/2003-June/004220.html
>
> However I tried both of the suggested fixes in that thread (make sure 
> compiling in debug mode if using debug bpl lib/release if using 
> release bpl lib, and using bjam)  All of these resulted in the same 
> problem, just on different calls.
>
> Anyone know what to do?
>
> Andrew
>
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