[pypy-dev] swig + pypy - object reference counting

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

2011/9/28 Alex Pyattaev <alex.pyattaev at gmail.com>

> Hi!
> I have a quite sophisticated program that can be summarized as follows:
> 1. Save a pypy object pointer inside C program. Here I call Py_XINCREF so
> that
> it does not get deleted.
> 2. Do some logic, move this reference around C code.
> 3. Return a python tuple via typemap, here I am probably supposed to return
> a
> borrowed reference. And in Python2 it works just fine. BUT. In pypy, for
> some
> reason, it causes segfault with following message:
> """
> Fatal error in cpyext, CPython compatibility layer, calling PyTuple_SetItem
> Either report a bug or consider not using this particular extension
> <InvalidPointerException object at 0x14a87a8>
> RPython traceback:
>  File "module_cpyext_api_1.c", line 28965, in PyTuple_SetItem
>  File "module_cpyext_pyobject.c", line 1018, in CpyTypedescr_realize
> Segmentation fault
> """
> If I call Py_XINCREF before returning the object, the crash does not happen
> and the memory does not seem to be leaking (at least not noticeably massive
> amounts of it). So it seems that PyPy is somewhat incompatible with Python2
> in
> that matter.
> If you want I could send the code example that triggers the bug (it IS
> quite
> large app, which might have many more bugs apart from this, but still).
>

Isn't PyTuple_SetItem supposed to "steal" the reference?
In this case you'd better INCREF the object if it is globally shared.

-- 
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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