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Mon Aug 30 19:45:33 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/048481.html

[Fredrik Lundh]
> (but I must be tired; can anyone explain how "making the function last"
> prevents the code from looking at uninitialized data?)

It doesn't.  obmalloc can read uninitialized memory, and by design
(see REAMDE.valgrind).  Putting the function last was, as Neal said in
his comment there. to prevent gcc from inlining it.  That in turn is
required so that the Valgrind suppression file can name the function.

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