[PyQt] SIP Question (Not PyQT/PyKDE related)

[Phil Thompson]

On Thursday 05 July 2007 4:48 pm, Doyon, Jean-Francois wrote:
> Phil,
>
> Thanks a bunch, just go the snapshot, and things now work as expected.
>
> One thing though re: reference passing:
>
> I wanted Python to get the reference so that everything gest cleaned up
> properly, so I added a /TransferBack/ (Actually /Out,TransferBack/) to
> the method signature, only now glibc complains that free() is called on
> an invalid pointer when the interpreter shuts down! Is that right?

Probably not. Where does ownership of the (C++) object really lie? You can 
only use /TransferBack/ if ownership if the C++ really is giving up 
ownership.

> I may end up using the C++ toolkit I'm wrapping a long-running, even
> threaded process (a server), so I want to make sure I get this right.

Phil