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From: Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Segfault when setting an instance property on 2.7.3
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:43:15 +0200
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Le samedi 25 ao=C3=BBt 2012 11:38:47, Vincent Pelletier a =C3=A9crit :
> Any idea of ways to debug this problem further ?

Trying with pypy ("just to see"), I got even more reproductible segfaults -=
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even with valgrind.

Turns out, I was not keeping strong references to ctypes buffers, which get=
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very quickly collected with pypy and memory reused for something else, lead=
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to a quick crash.

Now, I don't get yet why cpython was not crashing more often, even if I for=
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gc.collect() . Less memory recycling maybe ?

Regards,
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Vincent Pelletier