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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2002-04-18 21:58:56 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2002-04-18 21:58:56 (GMT)
commit64d80c9f40465f9bed18712bc2b792f28dcac162 (patch)
tree9dfa396f3a15563c63fc494c51227e04ecc297cd /Objects
parent3e12071dbe18958528f481807102bfdb0f4c054f (diff)
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PyObject_Malloc: make a tiny bit faster for platforms where malloc(0)
doesn't return NULL. PyObject_Realloc: better comment for why we don't call PyObject_Malloc(0).
Diffstat (limited to 'Objects')
-rw-r--r--Objects/obmalloc.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/obmalloc.c b/Objects/obmalloc.c
index 5948e52..602b3c3 100644
--- a/Objects/obmalloc.c
+++ b/Objects/obmalloc.c
@@ -685,7 +685,11 @@ redirect:
* last chance to serve the request) or when the max memory limit
* has been reached.
*/
- return (void *)malloc(nbytes ? nbytes : 1);
+#ifdef MALLOC_ZERO_RETURNS_NULL
+ if (nbytes == 0)
+ nbytes = 1;
+#endif
+ return (void *)malloc(nbytes);
}
/* free */
@@ -803,7 +807,10 @@ PyObject_Realloc(void *p, size_t nbytes)
}
/* We're not managing this block. */
if (nbytes <= SMALL_REQUEST_THRESHOLD) {
- /* Take over this block. */
+ /* Take over this block -- ask for at least one byte so
+ * we really do take it over (PyObject_Malloc(0) goes to
+ * the system malloc).
+ */
bp = PyObject_Malloc(nbytes ? nbytes : 1);
if (bp != NULL) {
memcpy(bp, p, nbytes);