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authorVictor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>2019-04-11 11:01:15 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-04-11 11:01:15 (GMT)
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bpo-36389: Change PyMem_SetupDebugHooks() constants (GH-12782)
Modify CLEANBYTE, DEADDYTE and FORBIDDENBYTE constants: use 0xCD, 0xDD and 0xFD, rather than 0xCB, 0xBB and 0xFB, to use the same byte patterns than Windows CRT debug malloc() and free().
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/memory.rst b/Doc/c-api/memory.rst
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--- a/Doc/c-api/memory.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/memory.rst
@@ -440,8 +440,9 @@ Customize Memory Allocators
Setup hooks to detect bugs in the Python memory allocator functions.
- Newly allocated memory is filled with the byte ``0xCB``, freed memory is
- filled with the byte ``0xDB``.
+ Newly allocated memory is filled with the byte ``0xCD`` (``CLEANBYTE``),
+ freed memory is filled with the byte ``0xDD`` (``DEADBYTE``). Memory blocks
+ are surrounded by "forbidden bytes" (``FORBIDDENBYTE``: byte ``0xFD``).
Runtime checks:
@@ -471,6 +472,12 @@ Customize Memory Allocators
if the GIL is held when functions of :c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_OBJ` and
:c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_MEM` domains are called.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.8.0
+ Byte patterns ``0xCB`` (``CLEANBYTE``), ``0xDB`` (``DEADBYTE``) and
+ ``0xFB`` (``FORBIDDENBYTE``) have been replaced with ``0xCD``, ``0xDD``
+ and ``0xFD`` to use the same values than Windows CRT debug ``malloc()``
+ and ``free()``.
+
.. _pymalloc: