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Diffstat (limited to 'Objects/obmalloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | Objects/obmalloc.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/obmalloc.c b/Objects/obmalloc.c index 753b2cc..a72d05a 100644 --- a/Objects/obmalloc.c +++ b/Objects/obmalloc.c @@ -139,7 +139,10 @@ * getpagesize() call or deduced from various header files. To make * things simpler, we assume that it is 4K, which is OK for most systems. * It is probably better if this is the native page size, but it doesn't - * have to be. + * have to be. In theory, if SYSTEM_PAGE_SIZE is larger than the native page + * size, then `POOL_ADDR(p)->arenaindex' could rarely cause a segmentation + * violation fault. 4K is apparently OK for all the platforms that python + * currently targets. */ #define SYSTEM_PAGE_SIZE (4 * 1024) #define SYSTEM_PAGE_SIZE_MASK (SYSTEM_PAGE_SIZE - 1) |