Hi,
I've written a small python script which uses a C program. I've created the interface using swig. The C program contains the code to create a structure of a given type. The problem is that I am getting a segfault when I try to create new members of that structure in python. On tracing it points to malloc_consolidate in libc. I don't know how to solve the problem. I am including the stack trace of the debugged code.

Thanks in advance

Kumar

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Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 1074133056 (LWP 8271)]
0x4207494e in malloc_consolidate () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
(gdb) where
#0 0x4207494e in malloc_consolidate () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1 0x42073f99 in _int_malloc () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#2 0x42073a5e in calloc () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#3 0x402b1893 in _wrap_new_iscsi_init_nopout () from ./_pdu.so
#4 0x080d0df4 in PyCFunction_Call ()
#5 0x080b3797 in PyObject_Call ()
#6 0x0807cb13 in PyEval_GetFuncDesc ()
#7 0x0807aaa1 in PyEval_EvalCode ()
#8 0x0807b0ce in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#9 0x080c447c in PyFunction_SetClosure ()
#10 0x080b3797 in PyObject_Call ()
#11 0x080ba4ab in PyMethod_New ()
#12 0x080b3797 in PyObject_Call ()
#13 0x0807c905 in PyEval_GetFuncDesc ()
#14 0x0807a525 in PyEval_EvalCode ()
#15 0x0807b0ce in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#16 0x080c447c in PyFunction_SetClosure ()
#17 0x080b3797 in PyObject_Call ()
#18 0x080ba4ab in PyMethod_New ()
#19 0x080b3797 in PyObject_Call ()
#20 0x08068f9a in _PyObject_SlotCompare ()
#21 0x08060868 in PyTuple_Fini ()
#22 0x080b3797 in PyObject_Call ()
#23 0x0807c905 in PyEval_GetFuncDesc ()
#24 0x0807a525 in PyEval_EvalCode ()
#25 0x0807b0ce in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#26 0x0807c62b in PyEval_GetFuncDesc ()
#27 0x0807a5a3 in PyEval_EvalCode ()
#28 0x0807b0ce in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#29 0x08077fc5 in PyEval_EvalCode ()
#30 0x08097e29 in PyRun_FileExFlags ()
#31 0x080969f5 in PyRun_InteractiveOneFlags ()
#32 0x08096796 in PyRun_InteractiveLoopFlags ()
#33 0x08096697 in PyRun_AnyFileExFlags ()
#34 0x08053a19 in Py_Main ()
#35 0x08053469 in main ()
#36 0x42015574 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
(gdb)

How are you allocating memory for the structure in the C program? I think I would start looking there for your problem.

I am not explicitely allocating any memory for the structures. Swig is generating a wrapper code which in turn allocates memory for my structures. And the code generated by swig is resulting in a segfault(At the position #2 of the stack trace in the file generated by the swig as shown in #3 of the stack trace)