On Apr 24, 2017, at 6:59 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 4/24/2017 6:24 PM, CFK wrote: >> TLDR version: the bdwgc garbage collector (http://www.hboehm.info/gc/) and >> python's collector are not playing nice with one another, and I need to >> make them work with each other. >> Long version: I'm trying to write bindings for python via ctypes to control >> a library written in C that uses the bdwgc garbage collector ( >> http://www.hboehm.info/gc/). The bindings mostly work, except for when >> either bdwgc or python's garbage collector decide to get into an argument >> over what is garbage and what isn't, in which case I get a segfault because >> one or the other collector has already reaped the memory. I need the two >> sides to play nice with one another. I can think of two solutions: >> First, I can replace Python's garbage collector via the functions described >> at https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/memory.html#customize-memory-allocators >> so that they use the bdwgc functions instead. However, this leads me to a >> whole series of questions: >> 1. Has anyone done anything like this before? > > I know that experiments have been done. > Have you tried searching 'Python bdwgc garbage collection' or similar?
I did google around a bit, but the results I found weren't relevant. I was hoping someone else on the list had tried, and simply hadn't gotten around to posting about it anywhere yet. Thanks, Cem Karan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
