I'm pretty familiar with writing C code and I'm comfortable in writing python code. I'm trying to learn how to write modules in C that can be called from Python-3.9.X on OSX 10.15.7. I've gotten a couple 'hello world' type of examples to work, but for complex examples I'm struggling to figure out how I would debug the C-extensions that I write.
MWE:
src/add.c
// The C function that actually does the work
static PyObject * add_c_func(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{
int a=0;
int b=0;
int c=0;
// This determines the number arguments used by add_c_func
if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "iii", &a, &b, &c))
{
return NULL;
}
printf("%i\n", a+b+c);
Py_RETURN_NONE;
}
// This defines the function used by
static PyMethodDef AddMethods[] = {
{"add_py_func", add_c_func, METH_VARARGS, "Add three numbers."},
{NULL, NULL, 0, NULL}
};
static struct PyModuleDef addpymod =
{
PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT,
"addpymod", /* name of module */
"", /* module documentation, may be NULL */
-1, /* size of per-interpreter state of the module, or -1 if the module keeps state in global variables. */
AddMethods
};
PyMODINIT_FUNC PyInit_addpymod(void)
{
return PyModule_Create(&addpymod);
}
setup.py :
from setuptools import setup, Extension
setup(
name='addpymod',
version='1.0',
description='Python Package with Hello World C Extension',
ext_modules=[
Extension(
'addpymod',
sources=['src/add.c'],
py_limited_api=True)
],
)
Compiling / installing (by default it uses clang
):
python setup.py install
Trying to debug :
(py-ext-test) local: understand-python-c-ext $ gdb
GNU gdb (GDB) 10.1
.
.
.
(gdb) b add.c : 20
No symbol table is loaded. Use the "file" command.
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) y
Breakpoint 1 (add.c : 20) pending.
(gdb) python
>import addpymod
>addpymod.add_py_func(10,10,10) # Why didn't my breakpoint get hit?
>Quit
# This clearly failed, I'm not even sure where my stdout is
There are multiple levels of complexity here and I'm sure that I'm being tripped by more than one.
Question :
- How do I debug my
add.c
usinggdb
(preferred) or possiblylldb
since it was compiled by default withclang
's-g
option?