[Python-Dev] Activating pymalloc

15 Mar 2002 09:44:02 +0000

Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net> writes:
> [Neal]
> > A lot of extensions will break. The example code in xxmodule.c was
> > "wrong" for years.
>> Ditto Zope (as Guido said), ditto Marc-Andre's extensions, ditto
> NumPy (IIRC), yadda yadda yadda. I don't know whether MarkH has
> tried the massive Win32 extensions with pymalloc yet.

I think one of the reasons lots of modules break is that back in the
1.5.2 days, PyObject_Del didn't exist, and you were expected to use
PyMem_Del. This now breaks.
Could be misremembering.
Cheers,
M.
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