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| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/README.valgrind | 9 |
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diff --git a/Misc/README.valgrind b/Misc/README.valgrind index b483b2e..ee9bfdf 100644 --- a/Misc/README.valgrind +++ b/Misc/README.valgrind @@ -12,12 +12,9 @@ can be used to force the usage of the malloc() allocator of the C library. If you don't want to read about the details of using Valgrind, there are still two things you must do to suppress the warnings. First, you must use a suppressions file. One is supplied in -Misc/valgrind-python.supp. Second, you must do one of the following: - - * Uncomment Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER in Objects/obmalloc.c, - then rebuild Python - * Uncomment the lines in Misc/valgrind-python.supp that - suppress the warnings for PyObject_Free and PyObject_Realloc +Misc/valgrind-python.supp. Second, you must uncomment the lines in +Misc/valgrind-python.supp that suppress the warnings for PyObject_Free and +PyObject_Realloc. If you want to use Valgrind more effectively and catch even more memory leaks, you will need to configure python --without-pymalloc. |