[Python-Dev] PyMem_Realloc corner case
Jason Orendorff
jason@jorendorff.com
Fri, 1 Mar 2002 00:15:15 -0600
I just got bit by the following:
On Windows, PyMem_Realloc() doesn't seem to work as advertised in
http://www.python.org/doc/current/api/memoryInterface.html
In particular, "if n is equal to zero, the memory block is
resized but is not freed, and the returned pointer is non-NULL".
In Objects/object.c, lines 1878-1896, PyMem_Malloc() and
PyMem_Realloc() seem to try to guarantee this behavior.
Somehow it isn't working for me.
Does this mean MALLOC_ZERO_RETURNS_NULL should be defined
in PC/pyconfig.h? Or do I have an off version of the CRT
that causes problems nobody else has <sigh>?
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