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Bug 639972 - raise a better exception when we aren't able to allocate a struct
raise a better exception when we aren't able to allocate a struct
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: pygobject
Classification: Bindings
Component: introspection
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Nobody's working on this now (help wanted and appreciated)
Python bindings maintainers
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Reported: 2011-01-19 18:04 UTC by Tomeu Vizoso
Modified: 2012-09-03 16:00 UTC
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Description Tomeu Vizoso 2011-01-19 18:04:08 UTC 
If a struct is opaque and g-i reports a size of 0 _and_ there isn't a suitable default constructor, a MemoryError is raised because we try to allocate a buffer of 0 bytes.

Instead, we should give a better error that instructed people to add an override or fix it in the C level.
Comment 1 Martin Pitt 2012-09-03 16:00:28 UTC 
Fixed with a test case:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/pygobject/commit/?id=77844c571ad0bad