[Python-Dev] Activating pymalloc (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
15 Mar 2002 09:44:02 +0000

Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net> writes:

[Neal] > A lot of extensions will break. The example code in xxmodule.c was > "wrong" for years.

Ditto Zope (as Guido said), ditto Marc-Andre's extensions, ditto NumPy (IIRC), yadda yadda yadda. I don't know whether MarkH has tried the massive Win32 extensions with pymalloc yet.

I think one of the reasons lots of modules break is that back in the 1.5.2 days, PyObject_Del didn't exist, and you were expected to use PyMem_Del. This now breaks.

Could be misremembering.

Cheers, M.

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