Re: Weird memory consumption problem.

Bo Peng wrote:
Sorry, are you saying that the code you posted does NOT have a memory leak, but you want us to find the memory leak in your real code sight unseen?

Problem found. It is hidden in a utility function that converts the return value to a double. The refcnt of the middle result was not decreased.

    PyObject* res = PyNumber_Float(obj);
    val = PyFloat_AsDouble(res);
    // missing
    Py_DECREF(res);

The problem is not that difficult to find, but it was 2am in the morning and I was misled by the different behavior of pyFun1 and pyFun2.

Thanks,
Bo
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