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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2014-02-24 20:48:22 (GMT)
committerR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2014-02-24 20:48:22 (GMT)
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whatsnew: cypthon can be compiled with address sanity checking enabled.
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@@ -1484,6 +1484,11 @@ Other Build and C API Changes
existing :c:func:`PyStructSequence_InitType` function. The difference
is that it returns ``0`` on success and ``-1`` on failure.
+* The CPython source can now be compiled using the address sanity checking
+ features of recent versions of GCC and clang: the false alarms in the small
+ object allocator have been silenced. (Contributed by Dhiru Kholia in
+ :issue:`18598`.)
+
.. _other-improvements-3.4: