Commit d2c450e6 authored by Robert Bradshaw's avatar Robert Bradshaw

Merge pull request #371 from inflector/inflector-patch-1

Added paragraph about shared library SIGSEGV cause
parents c4c2e3d8 0efe7e46
......@@ -356,6 +356,14 @@ C code wanting to use these functions or extension types needs to include the
header and call the :func:`import_modulename` function. The other functions
can then be called and the extension types used as usual.
If the C code wanting to use these functions is part of more than one shared
library or executable, then :func:`import_modulename` function needs to be
called in each of the shared libraries which use these functions. If you
crash with a segmentation fault (SIGSEGV on linux) when calling into one of
these api calls, this is likely an indication that the shared library which
contains the api call which is generating the segmentation fault does not call
the :func:`import_modulename` function before the api call which crashes.
Any public C type or extension type declarations in the Cython module are also
made available when you include :file:`modulename_api.h`.::
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