[Straw-devel] Re: segfault when starting - prob with mxDateTime ?

[Marc Thoben]

On 27th of September 2003 at  2:54:28, Marc Thoben wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I just went through the pain to fulfill all dependencies ;) but
> straw isn't working...:
> 
> address@hidden:~> straw 
> Segmentation fault
> 
> ..

Okey, I got it. After...

address@hidden:~/testing> cat python_mx_check.py
#!/usr/bin/python

import mx.DateTime.mxDateTime.mxDateTime

address@hidden:~/testing> ./python_mx_check.py
Segmentation fault

I poked around in mxDateTime a little.

With this patch it works for me:

--- egenix-mx-base-2.0.5/mx/DateTime/mxDateTime/mxDateTime.c.orig
2001-12-10 11:15:49.000000000 +0100
+++ egenix-mx-base-2.0.5/mx/DateTime/mxDateTime/mxDateTime.c
2003-09-27 06:24:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -325,6 +325,7 @@
 {
     mxDateTimeObject *datetime;
 
+/*
 #ifdef MXDATETIME_FREELIST
     if (mxDateTime_FreeList) {
        datetime = mxDateTime_FreeList;
@@ -334,6 +335,7 @@
     }
     else
 #endif 
+*/
         {
        datetime = PyObject_NEW(mxDateTimeObject,&mxDateTime_Type);
        if (datetime == NULL)
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Seems like MXDATETIME_FREELIST is not such a good idea (at least
here ;). I'm also going to let the folks at
address@hidden know about this.

> 
> Regards,
> Marc
> 
> 
> PS: Please cc: me, because I'm not yet subscribed to this ML.