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Re: [pygame] Surfarray.array_alpha() bugfix, py2exe/py2app segfault

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Marcus von Appen <mva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On, Tue Feb 03, 2009, Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
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>> Well, for starters the buffer proxy object only borrows a reference to
>> its parent surface (no PY_INCREF/PY_DECREF calls).
>
> Which should be absolutely okay, as surface.get_buffer() acquires a
> lock.
>

hrmm... I think it could matter if the parent surface gets to
reference count 0 -- when the buffer still exists, and then the
surface tries to deallocate the parent surface memory... thus making
the buffer point to invalid memory.

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