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Answer by TomTUM: Turns out it's a general problem with SIP. Whenever we have a struct C { Member m; } and access from from a an instantiation C().m, the instantiated object gets garbage collected while .m still points to the memory held by C++ directly. It seems like there is no way to do this right in SIP.

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