[Python-Dev] Problem with the memory docs

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Sorry, but this is nuts, and Martin is right that I don't want Python to
> > offer a "malloc wrapper" that doesn't meet the standard rules for malloc.
> > Instead I intend to change the docs to say that Py_Malloc(0) acts like
> > platform malloc(1), and leave it at that.
> 
> That, OTOH, is not what Guido wants it to be. Guido wants Py_Malloc to
> return 0 *only* in case of failure; allocating 0 bytes should
> "normally" succeed. I still cannot see what problems you have with
> this requirement.

How is this different from what Tim says?  Maybe you read what Tim
wrote as malloc(0)?  But he wrote malloc(1).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)