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| author | Jack DeVries <58614260+jdevries3133@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-08-06 12:50:56 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-08-06 12:50:56 (GMT) |
| commit | 15d3c14df32a35ac69898a7852115722e30d7857 (patch) | |
| tree | bd8fb96915ef0dcf7959139dd9460829f417ffc0 /Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests | |
| parent | 4d77691172aae81bdcbb0ea75839d0e896c43781 (diff) | |
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bpo-40928: notify users running test_decimal on macOS of malloc warnings (GH-26783)
* When trying to allocate very large regions on macOS, malloc does not fail silently. It sends a noisy error out to STDERR
* This provides a helper function to warn the user, and provides the warning for test_decimal, which consistently generates these warnings on macOS.
Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-08-06-00-07-15.bpo-40928.aIwb6G.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-08-06-00-07-15.bpo-40928.aIwb6G.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c9a5e1b --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-08-06-00-07-15.bpo-40928.aIwb6G.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Notify users running test_decimal regression tests on macOS of potential +harmless "malloc can't allocate region" messages spewed by test_decimal. |