[Python-Dev] Prevalence of low-level memory abuse? (original) (raw)
Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 01:58:02 CEST 2006
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[Edward Loper]
Could the debug build's macros for PyMem/PyObjectnew/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?
It's partly possible (e.g., it's impossible to know whether a blob of memory was obtained by calling malloc() directly).
If someone wants to do it (I do not), the debug build adds 8 bytes to each side of each memory block obtained via each PyMem and PyObject malloc/realloc call, and one of the (current) 8 FORBIDDEN_BYTEs could be used to store flags without significant loss of functionality. It would make a decent enhancement.
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