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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:13:25 -0500

> 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 PyMalloc(0) acts like > platform malloc(1), and leave it at that.

That, OTOH, is not what Guido wants it to be. Guido wants PyMalloc 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).

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