[C++-sig] Reference counted object return value policy

[David Abrahams]

on Wed Sep 24 2008, Jean-Sébastien Guay <jean-sebastien.guay-AT-cm-labs.com> wrote:

> Hello Hans,
>
>> IIRC Roman has a nice web page about that.. Seems to be here:
>>
> http://www.language-binding.net/pyplusplus/troubleshooting_guide/smart_ptrs/smart_ptrs.html
>
> I've seen that and will try to apply it. Thanks.
>
> Actually, I think my problems with boost.python can be summed up thus:
> * I don't know when such and such strategy is required, and when it's
>   just useless code that adds to the maintenance overhead of my wrappers
> * I don't know how to debug the wrappers if they don't give the intended
>   results (other than blindly trying something else).
>
> The first point, I can work on by reading the documentation more thoroughly. But
> I would appreciate tips on the second. I haven't seen any documentation on that.
>
> In particular, if some code makes the python interpreter crash, what can I do to
> get a stack trace or go into it with a debugger (on windows in my case)? Do I
> need to compile Python and/or boost in debug?

That's what I do.

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Dave Abrahams
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