Hi all,

I was happily using PyObject_New instead of PyObject_GC_New with flags containing Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GC during development of some bindings. The module was working just fine with the debug build. As soon as building a release build things started to crash and it took me about five days to figure this one out. The reason is GC decrements a counter which does not affect debug build too much but does decrement the address of a tuple in release builds.

Do you think that an error could be raised when the incorrect New is used with or without the Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GC set?

Previously I fixed up pygoom (for Freevo) to work bit I'm a bit of a newbee to writing C extensions from scratch. These bindings are to monitor and control Orbacus CORBA servers.

Thanks, Duncan