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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-11-26 00:11:02 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-11-26 00:11:02 (GMT)
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Better resolution for issue #11849: Ensure that free()d memory arenas are really released
on POSIX systems supporting anonymous memory mappings. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
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@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.3 Alpha 1?
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #11849: Ensure that free()d memory arenas are really released
+ on POSIX systems supporting anonymous memory mappings. Patch by
+ Charles-François Natali.
+
- Issue #13436: Fix a bogus error message when an AST object was passed
an invalid integer value.
@@ -260,10 +264,6 @@ Core and Builtins
interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when
they try to take the GIL.
-- Issue #11849: Make it more likely for the system allocator to release
- free()d memory arenas on glibc-based systems. Patch by Charles-François
- Natali.
-
- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the