bus error/segfault from PyArg_ParseTupl e in initproc with incorrectarg number

[Miles Lubin]

I am using PyArg_ParseTupl e to parse the arguments (ignoring the keyword
arguments) to my initproc for a type I define.
It seems that something goes wrong inside PyArg_ParseTupl e when it gets
the wrong number of arguments (my format string is "OO");
if the function isn't given exactly two arguments, I get a bus error on
OS X and a segfault on Linux.
If two arguments are given, the code runs as expected.
This does not occur when using PyArg_ParseTupl e in a normal method.
Am I not using PyArg_ParseTupl e correctly?

Here's the relevant code:
PyObject *a, *b;
if (!PyArg_ParseTu ple(args, "OO", &a, &b))
return -1;

The segfault occurs on this line, not on any line after.

Thanks in advance,
Miles

[Andrew MacIntyre]

Miles Lubin wrote:

I am using PyArg_ParseTupl e to parse the arguments (ignoring the keyword
arguments) to my initproc for a type I define.
It seems that something goes wrong inside PyArg_ParseTupl e when it gets
the wrong number of arguments (my format string is "OO");
if the function isn't given exactly two arguments, I get a bus error on
OS X and a segfault on Linux.
If two arguments are given, the code runs as expected.
This does not occur when using PyArg_ParseTupl e in a normal method.
Am I not using PyArg_ParseTupl e correctly?

Here's the relevant code:
PyObject *a, *b;
if (!PyArg_ParseTu ple(args, "OO", &a, &b))
return -1;

The segfault occurs on this line, not on any line after.

I have seen bus errors on FreeBSD when python runs out of stack space.

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