[egenix-users] debug builds of 2.0.6 for python 2.5

[eGenix Support: M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2007-03-13 22:25, Howard Lightstone wrote:
> I seem to be having difficulties running mxDateTime debug 
> builds.
> 
> They build OK but running them leads me to machine faults 
> (referencing 0) during the datetime free logic.
> 
> It looks to me (naively) that there is a double 
> _py_ForgetReference call
>    once in py_DECREF as the object goes out of scope
>  and again in 
>     mxDateTime_Free (the object deallocator function)
> 
> Since the NON debug versions work, I conclude that the 
> debug version zero out the allocated memory so the second 
> forget call seems to work.
> 
> It may be my debug builds but I am stumped at this point (on 
> what to do next and how to debug and embedded  Python 
> task).  And of course, all this worked on Python 2.2........

This is a known problem - we never used or supported debug builds
in the 2.0 series of egenix-mx-base.

The 2.1 series fixed this. You can get the latest snapshot
from this message:

http://www.egenix.com/mailman-archives/egenix-users/2006-September/114091.html

Regards,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

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