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| author | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2016-03-18 10:04:31 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2016-03-18 10:04:31 (GMT) |
| commit | c2fc56836f6cb02ce6436d9eb0342dc595738e9d (patch) | |
| tree | 8b36c4084231867b414009b4ee81cc1fe5267b30 /Doc/c-api | |
| parent | 3ca334230712ef0e1b20f046cf62a24a1117a57a (diff) | |
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Enhance documentation on malloc debug hooks
Issue #26564, #26516, #26563.
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/memory.rst b/Doc/c-api/memory.rst index 843ccac..1787292 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/memory.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/memory.rst @@ -346,8 +346,9 @@ Customize Memory Allocators - Detect write before the start of the buffer (buffer underflow) - Detect write after the end of the buffer (buffer overflow) - Check that the :term:`GIL <global interpreter lock>` is held when - allocator functions of the :c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_OBJ` domain (ex: - :c:func:`PyObject_Malloc`) are called + allocator functions of :c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_OBJ` (ex: + :c:func:`PyObject_Malloc`) and :c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_MEM` (ex: + :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc`) domains 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 @@ -361,7 +362,9 @@ Customize Memory Allocators .. 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. + where a memory block was allocated. The debug hooks now also check + if the GIL is hold when functions of :c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_OBJ` and + :c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_MEM` domains are called. .. _pymalloc: |