Re: crash on import on Mac OS X after xml-generation merge explained

Mike C. Fletcher <mcfletch <at> vrplumber.com> writes:

> 
> On 14-01-31 05:03 AM, rndblnch wrote:
> > Mike C. Fletcher <mcfletch <at> vrplumber.com> writes:
> ...
> > great, thanks!
> >
> > on my side, everything is ok on MacOSX 10.9.1, python2.7 & python3.3.
> >
> > the only regression i found now is when using pypy-2.1 or pypy3-2.1, but
> > they are related to pypy's implementation of ctypes, and i am not sure that
> > the pypy devs have any interest in fixing it as they are strongly supporting
> > cffi now.
> > i will report my finding to them anyway.
> > by the way, pypy has never sped any of my opengl code...
> 
> Yeah, I'm seeing extremely poor performance under PyPy on what few demos 
> I can get running without Pygame and Numpy.  I fixed the GLUT error you 
> pointed out, and registered some data-types that have different names in 
> PyPy vs. CPython, and at least the core tests and a few GLUT Demos now 
> run under PyPy.
> 
> I'd say we're about ready for a 3.1.0b1 release for wider testing, so 
> I'll do that the next time I get a few hours to work on PyOpenGL.

great!
it works for me at r664 except when i pass tuples or lists instead of bytes
to functions expecting a pointer to  data under pypy (in my case, the last
argument of glUniformMatrix3fv).
the following patch fixes this (i guess that pypy does not throw the exact
same exceptions than cpython):

    === modified file 'OpenGL/arrays/lists.py'
    --- OpenGL/arrays/lists.py	2014-01-02 20:27:57 +0000
    +++ OpenGL/arrays/lists.py	2014-02-10 20:42:23 +0000
    @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
         def from_param( self, instance, typeCode=None ):
             try:
                 return ctypes.byref( instance )
    -        except TypeError as err:
    +        except (TypeError, AttributeError) as err:
                 array = self.asArray( instance, typeCode )
                 pp = ctypes.c_void_p( ctypes.addressof( array ) )
                 pp._temporary_array_ = (array,)


and here the call stack i was getting before applying this patch:

  File
"site-packages/PyOpenGL-3.1.0a4-py3.2.egg/OpenGL/platform/baseplatform.py",
line 32, in __call__
    return self.func( *args, **named )
  File
"lib_pypy/_ctypes/function.py", line
339, in __call__
    args, kwargs)
  File
"lib_pypy/_ctypes/function.py", line
561, in _convert_args
    keepalive, newarg, newargtype = self._conv_param(argtype, args[i])
  File
"/lib_pypy/_ctypes/function.py", line
455, in _conv_param
    arg = argtype.from_param(arg)
  File
"/site-packages/PyOpenGL-3.1.0a4-py3.2.egg/OpenGL/arrays/arraydatatype.py",
line 123, in from_param
    return cls.getHandler(value).from_param( value, cls.typeConstant )
  File
"/site-packages/PyOpenGL-3.1.0a4-py3.2.egg/OpenGL/arrays/lists.py",
line 49, in from_param
    return ctypes.byref( instance )
  File "/lib_pypy/_ctypes/basics.py",
line 174, in byref
    return pointer(cdata)
  File "/lib_pypy/_ctypes/pointer.py", line
184, in pointer
    return POINTER(type(inst))(inst)
  File
"/lib_pypy/_ctypes/pointer.py", line
178, in POINTER
    {'_type_': cls})
  File
"/lib_pypy/_ctypes/pointer.py", line
34, in __new__
    self.set_type(obj, typedict['_type_'])
  File
"/lib_pypy/_ctypes/pointer.py", line
73, in set_type
    self._ffiargtype = _ffi.types.Pointer(TP.get_ffi_argtype())
AttributeError: type object 'list' has no attribute 'get_ffi_argtype'

renaud

> 
> Have fun,
> Mike
> 





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