[Skip Montanaro
... I thought setting PYTHONTRACEMALLOC should provoke some useful output, but I was confused into thinking I was (am?) still missed something because it continued to produce this message:
Enable tracemalloc to get the memory block allocation traceback
Ah, I overlooked that.
which suggests to me tracemalloc still isn't enabled. That's emitted from Modules/_tracemalloc.c and seems to be properly protected:
if (!_Py_tracemalloc_config.tracing) { PUTS(fd, "Enable tracemalloc to get the memory block " "allocation traceback\n\n"); return; }
so I think there is still more to do.
Agreed - for whatever reason, tracemalloc is not enabled for you at the time your run dies, despite your
% PYTHONTRACEMALLOC=5 ./python ./Tools/scripts/run_tests.py -R 5:50:reflog.txt test_rattlesnake
command line. Have to leave that mystery for Victor! So between the "obvious" possibilities: - something is going nuts spraying 0 all over memory - the pointer passed to free() wasn't actually obtained from a malloc/realloc function there's nothing in the output to favor one over the other. Except that dereferencing addresses near the pointer didn't blow up (null bytes were returned), so the pointer is at least in the process's address space.