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Re: python aborts


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 06:54:03PM +0800, JonY wrote:
>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.

I'm still a (silent) gcc maintainer so I can presumably accept this patch.

Are there outstanding patches that need attention?  If so, please send URLs
from the gcc-patches archive here so that I can attend to them.

cgf

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