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[Python-Dev] Problem with the memory docs

[Python-Dev] Problem with the memory docs [Python-Dev] Problem with the memory docsTim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Fri, 05 Apr 2002 01:45:09 -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 Py_Malloc(0)
>> acts like platform malloc(1), and leave it at that.

[martin@v.loewis.de]
> That, OTOH, is not what Guido wants it to be. Guido wants Py_Malloc 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.

I'm not following this at all.  Calling malloc(1) does exactly what Guido
wants.  "malloc(1)" isn't a broken Unix manpage reference, if that's how
you're reading it; it means call malloc with an argument of 1.





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