debugging a c module?

Agent Drek drek at smashpow.net
Sun Sep 9 17:09:43 EDT 2001


On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Will Ware wrote:

> Agent Drek wrote:
> 
> > ...I'm pretty sure
> > that this is because I've screwed up a reference count somewhere in the
> > module. How do I go about debugging this? I'm using Python-2.1.1...
> > Recompile python and the module with debugging? gdb?
> 
> This is a trick I used once with Python 1.5.2. You could give it a try.
> You won't need gdb, but it will require recompiling Python with
> Py_DEBUG on, which enables some C macros in the code.
> 
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=G18tKx.IJC%40world.std.com
> 
> 

thanks for the tip!

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