C Wrapper Function, crashing Python?

Bernhard Herzog bh at intevation.de
Wed Oct 12 12:24:56 EDT 2005


"Java and Swing" <codecraig at gmail.com> writes:

> thanks for the tip, however even when I do not free aString or bString,
> i'm still crashing at the malloc in the c function, not the wrapper.

Do you have any more places where you use free incorrectly?  In my
experience, calling free with invalid values can corrupt the data
structures used by the memory allocator in such a way that subsequent
malloc calls crash.

   Bernhard

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