On Monday, December 31, 2012 6:36:16 PM UTC+1, Nils Bruin wrote:
>
> On Dec 31, 8:46 am, Jean-Pierre Flori <jpfl...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> > Of course, if Nils is right, it might not be up to us to solve such 
> > problems, but rather Python itself... 
>
> It might by cython, not python: 
>
> A little grepping in the Python source shows that the first thing 
> dealloc methods do is call _PyObject_GC_UNTRACK and then call 
> PyObject_ClearWeakRefs. Cython generated code leaves out the 
> _PyObject_GC_UNTRACK. Probably cython should untrack its objects upon 
> deallocation as well. That sounds like exactly the kind of thing that 
> would prevent the object from being marked for deallocation a second 
> time. 
>
Indeed (or at least), adding a _PyObject_GC_UNTRACK(o) in the dealloc 
method of category_object makes the segfault go away. 

>
> (mind you, TripleDictEraser needs fixing anyway. I think this shows 
> callbacks should be extremely careful in issuing delete instructions 
> on objects that are not solely under their control) 
>

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