bpo-29564:_PyMem_DumpTraceback() suggests enabling tracemalloc (GH-10510)

If tracemalloc is not tracing Python memory allocations,
_PyMem_DumpTraceback() now suggests to enable tracemalloc
to get the traceback where the memory block has been allocated.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Modules/_tracemalloc.c b/Modules/_tracemalloc.c
index 1005f2e..c5d5671 100644
--- a/Modules/_tracemalloc.c
+++ b/Modules/_tracemalloc.c
@@ -1471,6 +1471,12 @@ _PyMem_DumpTraceback(int fd, const void *ptr)
     traceback_t *traceback;
     int i;
 
+    if (!_Py_tracemalloc_config.tracing) {
+        PUTS(fd, "Enable tracemalloc to get the memory block "
+                 "allocation traceback\n\n");
+        return;
+    }
+
     traceback = tracemalloc_get_traceback(DEFAULT_DOMAIN, (uintptr_t)ptr);
     if (traceback == NULL)
         return;