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Diffstat (limited to 'Objects/object.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | Objects/object.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/object.c b/Objects/object.c index c9aa479..3fad73c 100644 --- a/Objects/object.c +++ b/Objects/object.c @@ -415,13 +415,12 @@ _Py_BreakPoint(void) } -/* Heuristic checking if the object memory has been deallocated. - Rely on the debug hooks on Python memory allocators which fills the memory - with DEADBYTE (0xDB) when memory is deallocated. +/* Heuristic checking if the object memory is uninitialized or deallocated. + Rely on the debug hooks on Python memory allocators: + see _PyMem_IsPtrFreed(). The function can be used to prevent segmentation fault on dereferencing - pointers like 0xdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdb. Such pointer is very unlikely to be mapped - in memory. */ + pointers like 0xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD. */ int _PyObject_IsFreed(PyObject *op) { |