[Python-Dev] Problem with the memory docs (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 22:01:26 +0200

Martin v. Loewis wrote:

> umm. I have to admit that it's rather ugly, but I'm pretty sure the > following guarantees that requesting zero bytes will never return a > NULL pointer: As Tim explained earlier, this implementation violates the ISO C requirement that different calls of malloc return different pointers.

oh. last time I checked, the ISO C standard didn't define the behaviour of any Py_ functions... (maybe you meant ISO Python? ;-)

(the documentation says "modelled after", but that doesn't necessarily mean "unless otherwise specified, behaves exactly as the corresponding functions in the"...)