python aborts

[JonY]

On 7/25/2013 18:18, JonY wrote:
> On 7/25/2013 17:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jul 25 01:36, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>>> On 7/25/2013 12:11 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>>>> On 7/24/2013 11:55 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>>>>> Does that help at all?  I only started seeing this problem after I recompiled
>>>>> _wp.dll using gcc 4.7.3.
>>>>
>>>> Actually, this problem looks a lot like
>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc@gcc.gnu.org/msg68316.html: neither Python nor
>>>> _wp links dynamically to libgcc, but cygsqlite3-0.dll does.
>>>>
>>>
>>> And this is a very nasty bug; Eli's analysis is correct. Say we have modules Foo
>>> and Bar. Foo links against shared libgcc, but Bar does not. Now, if we load Foo,
>>> load Bar, unload Foo, then unload Bar, then Foo's initialization code finds
>>> libgcc and registers itself with it, but Foo's deinitializaton code doesn't find
>>> libgcc, tries to instead unregister with Foo's internal data structures, finds
>>> them uninitialized, and aborts. No wonder changing Python module order around
>>> makes the problem go away for a little while.
>>>
>>> The right fix for libgcc looks something like this:
>>
>> Good catch!  Any chance you could send this upstream?
>>
>> JonY, do you have any spare cycles to create new 32 and 64 bit gcc
>> packages with this fix?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Corinna
>>
> 
> Sure, should be done during the weekends, uploads and all. Kai seems to
> be on holiday, so getting it accepted upstream might take a while.
> 
> 

Daniel, please apply for FSF copyright assignment if you have not
already done so, if not, this patch is not going to be accepted upstream.


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