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| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 7 |
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@@ -99,7 +99,12 @@ Core and builtins access to the current frame during destruction of a local variable could access a pointer to freed memory. -- The optional object allocator has been enabled by default. +- The optional object allocator ("pymalloc") has been enabled by + default. The recommended practice for memory allocation and + deallocation has been streamlined. A header file is included, + Misc/pymemcompat.h, which can be bundled with 3rd party extensions + and lets them use the same API with Python versions from 1.5.2 + onwards. - If you try to pickle an instance of a class that has __slots__ but doesn't define or override __getstate__, a TypeError is now raised. |