Recently I completed a project where I used PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs
extensively with the NLTK library from a program written in NASM, with no
problems. Now I am on a new project where I call the Python random library. I
use the same setup as before, but I am getting a segfault with random.seed.
At the start of the NASM program I call a C API program that gets PyObject
pointers to “seed” and “randrange” in the same way as I did before:
int64_t Get_LibModules(int64_t * return_array)
{
PyObject * pName_random = PyUnicode_FromString("random");
PyObject * pMod_random = PyImport_Import(pName_random);
if (pMod_random == 0x0){
PyErr_Print();
return 1;}
PyObject * pAttr_seed = PyObject_GetAttrString(pMod_random, "seed");
PyObject * pAttr_randrange = PyObject_GetAttrString(pMod_random, "randrange");
return_array[0] = (int64_t)pAttr_seed;
return_array[1] = (int64_t)pAttr_randrange;
return 0;
}
Later in the same program I call a C API program to call random.seed:
int64_t C_API_2(PyObject * pAttr_seed, Py_ssize_t value_1)
{
PyObject * p_seed_calc = PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(pAttr_seed, value_1);
if (p_seed_calc == 0x0){
PyErr_Print();
return 1;}
//Prepare return values
long return_val = PyLong_AsLong(p_seed_calc);
return return_val;
}
The first program correctly imports “random” and gets pointers to “seed” and
“randrange.” I verified that the same pointer is correctly passed into
C_API_2, and the seed value (1234) is passed as Py_ssize_t value_1. But I get
this segfault:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff64858d5 in _Py_INCREF (op=0x4d2) at ../Include/object.h:459
459 ../Include/object.h: No such file or directory.
So I tried Py_INCREF in the first program:
Py_INCREF(pMod_random);
Py_INCREF(pAttr_seed);
Then I moved Py_INCREF(pAttr_seed) to the second program. Same segfault.
Finally, I initialized “random” and “seed” in the second program, where they
are used. Same segfault.
The segfault refers to Py_INCREF, so this seems to do with reference counting,
but Py_INCREF didn’t solve it.
I’m using Python 3.8 on Ubuntu.
Thanks for any ideas on how to solve this.
Jen
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