[PyQt] sip segfaults while using eric4

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Thu Aug 16 18:38:09 BST 2007


On Thursday 16 August 2007, Christof Hanke wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm a "eric4"-user which uses sip-4.7.
> Unfortunately, my eric4 crashes reproducibly in sip.so (Version-numbers
> given below).
>
> Basically it tries to access memory at "0xdbdbdbdb".
> Searching the web for "0xdbdbdbdb" and python suggests
> that maybe some refcounters are wrong ?
>
> Since I could compile everything with symbol-information, I could find a
> "workaround". By applying the "patch" below, it doesn't crash anymore.
> The circumstances of the crash are somewhat convoluted, but if it is of
> any help I can try to get the crash as small as possible.
> After the patch I attached the stacktrace of a gdb-session.

So how do I reproduce the crash?

Phil


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