[C++-sig] Re: std::string crush

[David Abrahams]

"Vladimir Ignatov" <vignatov at colorpilot.com> writes:

> Hello!
>
> I am just start learning Boost.Python and faced a strange problem.  I need
> to push some binary data from Python to C++ module.  std::string look like a
> natural way to do it. Unfortunately I can't get this simple stuff working.
> After several invokes, TestStr() raise the "RuntimeError: unidentifiable C++
> exception" which I think is actually a crush (access violation or
> so). 

If there's really a crash, #include <libs/python/test/module_tail.cpp>
in your module.  It will keep the stupid MS exception model from
masking the bug and will allow JIT debugging to drop you into the MS
debugger at the point of the crash.

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Dave Abrahams
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