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[Python-Dev] Debug entry points for PyMalloc

[Python-Dev] Debug entry points for PyMalloc [Python-Dev] Debug entry points for PyMallocGuido van Rossum guido@python.org
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:06:04 -0500
> The thing I've dreaded most about switching to pymalloc is losing
> the invaluable memory-corruption clues supplied by the Microsoft
> debug-build malloc.  On more than one occasion, they've found wild
> stores, out-of-bounds reads, reads of uninitialized memory, and
> reads of free()ed memory in Python.  It does this by spraying
> special bytes all over malloc'ed memory at various times, then
> checking the bytes for sanity at free() and realloc() times.

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

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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