Daniele Varrazzo schrieb:
>  Hello,
>  
>  while i was wrapping the SpiderMonkey library, ctypeslib crashed in two 
>  distinct points (but for the same reason): converting t.max into int 
>  when isinstance(t, typedesc.ArrayType). When t.max is the string 
>  "0xffffffffffffffff", int(t.max) fails with a ValueError. Tested with 
>  Python 2.4.3 on a 32 bit Gentoo system. int(t.max, 16) works fine anyway.
>  
>  The crash happens on both lines 66 and 214 in 
>  ctypeslib/codegen/codegenerator.py  (revision 52818) when calling 
>  xml2py. the offending structure is in gconv.h. Even with the patch on, 
>  the __gconv_info structure generates a warning (packing fails)
>  
>  The steps to reproduce the bugs on Linux are: (sorry if i don't reduce 
>  the matter to fewer steps, but i'm just starting with ctypes and i don't 
>  know where to start pruning)
[...]

Thanks for the report.  The problem is what gccxml generates for arrays with
unspecified sizes, in these C constructs:

extern char array[];
struct {
    char abc[];
};

I fixed the problem in SVN in a different way than your patch (this also fixes the 'packing
fails' warning), by special casing on the 't.max' values that come out of the XML file.

With the fixed version I can now successfully convert gconh.h into a Python module.

Thanks,
Thomas


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