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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-08-15 01:16:37 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-08-15 01:16:37 (GMT)
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complex_new(): This could leak when the argument was neither string nor
number. This accounts for the 2 refcount leaks per test_complex run Michael Hudson discovered (I figured only I would have the stomach to look for leaks in floating-point code <wink>).
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--Objects/complexobject.c3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ee464ca..63827d2 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.4 alpha 1?
Core and builtins
-----------------
+- complex(obj) could leak a little memory if obj wasn't a string or
+ number.
+
- zip() with no arguments now returns an empty list instead of raising
a TypeError exception.
diff --git a/Objects/complexobject.c b/Objects/complexobject.c
index 4367ff6..d50a6eb2 100644
--- a/Objects/complexobject.c
+++ b/Objects/complexobject.c
@@ -882,6 +882,9 @@ complex_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
((i != NULL) && (nbi == NULL || nbi->nb_float == NULL))) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
"complex() argument must be a string or a number");
+ if (own_r) {
+ Py_DECREF(r);
+ }
return NULL;
}
if (PyComplex_Check(r)) {