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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-01-17 21:02:55 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-01-17 21:02:55 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r77589 | mark.dickinson | 2010-01-17 20:57:56 +0000 (Sun, 17 Jan 2010) | 7 lines 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.
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- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the