[Orbit-python-list] Memory issues with Anys

[Brad C. <cha...@ar...>]

Hello all;
I've been plugging along quite nicely with ORBit-python on the IDL
I'm implementing, but ran into some sort of memory issue with anys.
In my actual code, I was getting messages like:

python in free(): warning: chunk is already free.

any then getting segfaults after too many of these messages.
Basically, all I'm doing is extracting the typecode and value from
the any. I was able to duplicate the error messages (without the
segfaulting, though) in a small test server/client. To avoid sending
tarballs to the list, I put the test scripts at:

http://www.bioinformatics.org/bradstuff/bc/AnyTest.tar.gz

Basically, this contains an IDL, client and server, that shows the
problem. 

I dug into the code on this, and came up with a proposed patch. The
patch seems to fix the problem (in both my test case and my real
code), but I'm definately not a C expert so someone smarter than I
will have to check it out to see if it causes memory leaks, etc.
Basically, I Py_INCREF the tc and value before returning them, which
I think accounts for the reference the calling code will get. But,
than again, I'm no expert :-).

Hope this helps.
Brad