[Numpy-tickets] [NumPy] #378: NumPy or Python crashing with segfault

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#378: NumPy or Python crashing with segfault
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 Reporter:  tecki               |        Owner:  somebody
     Type:  defect              |       Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal              |    Milestone:          
Component:  numpy.core          |      Version:          
 Severity:  normal              |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:  segfault vectorize  |  
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Comment (by tecki):

 Well, I am ''not'' just getting rid of a DECREF. Instead I am changing a
 DECREF to
 a CLEAR. This CLEAR does exactly the same DECREF, only that it sets the
 pointer
 to NULL afterwards. This prevents a second unwanted DECREF in the next
 loop, as described above. One could argue that we could just let the
 DECREF be done in the
 next pass of the loop: but that would be insane, since the last time we go
 through
 the loop, the buffer will ''not'' be reused afterwards, we would have to
 clean it
 in a step later.

 I actually did a very careful tracking of references, saw that the
 references
 of objects like int(158) (the 158 is an arbitrary example) go down to 0
 and even
 negative (that should ''really'' not happen). With my patch the refcounts
 go exactly
 to the right values. I'll write something that illustrates that.

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