On 2017-04-24, CFK <cfkar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Long version: I'm trying to write bindings for python via ctypes to control > a library written in C that uses the bdwgc garbage collector ( > http://www.hboehm.info/gc/). The bindings mostly work, except for when > either bdwgc or python's garbage collector decide to get into an argument > over what is garbage and what isn't, in which case I get a segfault because > one or the other collector has already reaped the memory.
Make your Python C objects contain a pointer to a GC_MALLOC_UNCOLLECTABLE block that contains a pointer to the bwdgc object it's an interface to? And GC_FREE it in tp_dealloc? Then bwdgc won't free any C memory that Python is referencing. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
