Issue #21951: Use attemptckalloc() instead of ckalloc() in Tkinter.

ckalloc() causes the Tcl interpreter to panic, attemptckalloc() returns NULL
if the memory allocation fails.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 91125e7..6668877 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #21951: Tkinter now most likely raises MemoryError instead of crash
+  if the memory allocation fails.
+
 - Issue #22338: Fix a crash in the json module on memory allocation failure.
 
 - Issue #22226: First letter no longer is stripped from the "status" key in