[Numpy-discussion] subclassing array in c

[mark florisson]

On 29 March 2012 09:07, Christoph Gohle <christoph.gohle at mpq.mpg.de> wrote:
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> Am 08.03.2012 um 20:39 schrieb Pauli Virtanen:
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>> 08.03.2012 17:37, Christoph Gohle kirjoitti:
>>> thanks for testing. I have now tried on different platforms. I get
>>> all kinds of crashes on os x (now with numpy 1.6.1) and windows
>>> with numpy 1.6.0. On Ubuntu with numpy 1.3.0 I get a hughe memory
>>> leak...
>>>
>>> Any hints would be welcome.
>>
>> The type object inherits `tp_alloc` from Numpy. This routine always
>> allocates memory of size NPY_SIZEOF_PYARRAYOBJECT for the
>> PyArrayObject. Therefore, the write to new->unit in your
>> __array_finalize__ goes to unallocated memory.
> do you think, I should submit a bugreport?
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> Cheers,
> Christoph
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Although the segfault was caused by a bug in NumPy, you should
probably also consider using Cython, which can make a lot of this pain
and boring stuff go away.

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