Ticket #181 (defect)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 10 months ago

Problem with SWIG exception handling

Status: closed (fixed)

Reported by: eb Assigned to: eb
Priority: low Milestone: release-3.1.2
Component: build Version: 3.0svn
Keywords: Cc:

This works under Python 2.4, but not under Python 2.5 as found on Ubuntu 7.04. 

eb@bufo:~/gr/trunk$ python
Python 2.5.1c1 (release25-maint, Apr 12 2007, 21:00:25)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from gnuradio import gr
>>> gr.costas_loop_cc(0,0,0,0,1)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::invalid_argument'
  what():  order must be 2 or 4
Aborted (core dumped)

Checking g++ version: 

eb@bufo:~/gr/trunk$ g++ --version
g++ (GCC) 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Can also be reproduced like this: 

eb@bufo:~/gr/trunk$ python
Python 2.5.1c1 (release25-maint, Apr 12 2007, 21:00:25)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from gnuradio import gr
>>> gr.firdes.hilbert(0)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'
  what():  Hilbert:  Must have odd number of taps
Aborted (core dumped)

Change History

08/30/07 20:08:16: Modified by eb

  • summary changed from Problem with SWIG exception handling on Python 2.5 (possible compiler issue?) to Problem with SWIG exception handling.

Update: some of this stuff fails on Python 2.4 too. Must be our problem ;) 

[eb@dee trunk]$ python
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Jun 21 2007, 13:52:44)
[GCC 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from gnuradio import gr
>>> tb = gr.top_block()
>>> tb.start()
>>> tb.start()
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  already running
Aborted (core dumped)

09/05/07 14:34:28: Modified by eb

  • owner changed from nobody to eb.
  • status changed from new to assigned.
  • milestone changed from to-be-decided to release-3.1.

10/22/07 12:44:39: Modified by jcorgan

  • milestone changed from release-3.1 to release-3.1.1.

11/06/07 22:38:55: Modified by jcorgan

  • milestone changed from release-3.1.1 to release-3.1.2.

01/15/08 10:35:05: Modified by eb

  • priority changed from normal to high.

01/18/08 18:18:47: Modified by eb

  • priority changed from high to low.

We appear to be triggering swig bug 1863647

Suggested work-around applied in [7461].

02/11/08 19:09:20: Modified by eb

  • status changed from assigned to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

We haven't heard any negative feedback, thus are closing it now.