On 11 Dec, 23:57, Christian Heimes <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Moore schrieb: > > That's what I thought. I was just hoping that using a debug build of > > an extension would be usable with a standard release build of Python, > > as that's what will be easy for most people to set up. > > A debug build changes large parts of the ABI. Every PyObject struct > gains additional fields, lots of checks are added to Python's memory > allocation system and asserts are enabled. Debug extensions have a _d > suffix for a very good reason. We aren't just trying to make *your* life > harder. :)
Ah. That's the bit of information I was missing. If the ABI changes, it's a wonder my hacking of my extension to build in debug mode worked at all! I suspect that if I could get distutils to let me specify that it keeps debug symbols in a release-mode build, I could get what I needed. But the arcane contortions needed to get distutils to do this are beyond me :-) I'll stick with printf - it's served me well enough so far :-) Thanks for clarifying, Paul. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
