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From: Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de>
Subject: Re: Stack_overflow error
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:40:09 +0100
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Aung Thet Naing <aung.thetnaing@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm having Stack_overflow exception in _ctypes_callproc (callproc.c). The error actually come from the:
>
>  cleanup:
>     for (i = 0; i < argcount; ++i)
>         Py_XDECREF(args[i].keep);
>
> when args[i].keep->ob_refCnt == 1

Really a stack overflow or a general segmentation violation?
Under *nix, both are not easy to distinguish -- but maybe, you are
working with Windows?