[Python-Dev] Valgrind on 2.2.2

[Michael Gilfix]

  Just been lurkin' :) Possibly lost means that Valgrind didn't see
any freeing for a specific point after a malloc. In valgrind terms,
you probably forgot to free a pointer and lost all points that could
reference that memory. In other words, a leak :) Usually 75% of those
errors can be solved locally within the function, although I haven't
looked at the specifics, but that 25% can get nasty.

                        -- Mike

On Thu, Oct 17 @ 20:38, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> There are a few other records mentioning GC_Resize, but this one is
> the biggest.  Could it be that the free frame list is botched?  OTOH,
> what does "possibly lost" really mean?

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