[Python-Dev] Prevalence of low-level memory abuse?
Edward Loper
edloper at gradient.cis.upenn.edu
Mon Mar 27 01:47:31 CEST 2006
Tim Peters wrote:
> If extension modules in real life prove as sloppy as Python's
> front end, we'll have to revert the objimpl.h + pymem.h part of this
> patch. Note that no problems will show up in a debug build (all
> calls still go thru obmalloc then). Problems will show up only in a
> release build, most likely segfaults.
Could the debug build's macros for PyMem/PyObject_new/free be modified
to check for mismatches? Or would storing information about which
method was used to allocate each pointer be too expensive? Perhaps a
special build could be used to check for mismatches?
-Edward
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