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| author | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2016-03-15 21:22:13 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2016-03-15 21:22:13 (GMT) |
| commit | 0611c26a58a937dace420691e797fbea21db619b (patch) | |
| tree | 20f6c60f778a2e999d299b3b015f01d83a10eb4d /Doc/c-api/memory.rst | |
| parent | af584a02a5dee4250e904ff75d22359aee9c2d70 (diff) | |
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On memory error, dump the memory block traceback
Issue #26564: _PyObject_DebugDumpAddress() now dumps the traceback where a
memory block was allocated on memory block. Use the tracemalloc module to get
the traceback.
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/memory.rst b/Doc/c-api/memory.rst index 25867d9..843ccac 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/memory.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/memory.rst @@ -349,12 +349,19 @@ Customize Memory Allocators allocator functions of the :c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_OBJ` domain (ex: :c:func:`PyObject_Malloc`) are called + On error, the debug hooks use the :mod:`tracemalloc` module to get the + traceback where a memory block was allocated. The traceback is only + displayed if :mod:`tracemalloc` is tracing Python memory allocations and the + memory block was traced. + These hooks are installed by default if Python is compiled in debug mode. The :envvar:`PYTHONMALLOC` environment variable can be used to install debug hooks on a Python compiled in release mode. .. versionchanged:: 3.6 This function now also works on Python compiled in release mode. + On error, the debug hooks now use :mod:`tracemalloc` to get the traceback + where a memory block was allocated. .. _pymalloc: |