[Python-Dev] Debug entry points for PyMalloc (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 18:07:30 -0500

[Guido]

Rather than trying to mimic this in pymalloc, isn't it easier to have a way to go back to the platform malloc?

[Tim]

We have one already: turn off pymalloc.

[Martin v. Loewis]

Notice that this is possible both at compile time and at run-time; it seems that you were thinking of the compile-time option, whereas Guido was asking for the run-time option.

After some number of calls to, e.g., PyObject_New, you can't just switch allocators in midstream, lest the eventual attempt to free the object hand the address off to a different allocator than was used to obtain the memory. Or maybe I have no idea what you're trying to say?