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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-01-17 20:57:56 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-01-17 20:57:56 (GMT)
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Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the
private memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c, along with a piece of code that caches powers of 5 for future use. This makes it easier to detect dtoa.c memory leaks with Valgrind or similar tools. Patch by Stefan Krah.
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+- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the
+ private memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and
+ PyMem_Free instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
+
- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on