On 4/14/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No, it sounds like there's a bug in generator cleanup :-) From Tim's description, it isn't obvious to me that the bug is in the hack to clean up simple generator frames. I had "finding generator-cycle leak in test_generators" on my TODO list (as I'd noticed it was still leaking, too), I've now replaced that with "finding the generator-cleanup crash Tim encountered" :-) I don't know if I'll get to it this weekend, though, so if anyone else wants to hunt for it, don't let me stop you.
At 03:49 PM 4/14/2006 -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
> That eventually
>pointed to an off-by-one error in the new PyGen_NeedsFinalizing(),
>where reading up trash made it very likely that old generators
>containing an active loop would falsely claim they need finalization.
>Alas, fix that, and Python segfaults when running test_generators.
Even with the close() gimmicks still in place? If so, it sounds like the
safest thing for a2 might be to claim that generators always need
finalizing. :(
No, it sounds like there's a bug in generator cleanup :-) From Tim's description, it isn't obvious to me that the bug is in the hack to clean up simple generator frames. I had "finding generator-cycle leak in test_generators" on my TODO list (as I'd noticed it was still leaking, too), I've now replaced that with "finding the generator-cleanup crash Tim encountered" :-) I don't know if I'll get to it this weekend, though, so if anyone else wants to hunt for it, don't let me stop you.
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