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Diffstat (limited to 'Objects')
| -rw-r--r-- | Objects/stringobject.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c index 6d25ddb..25621c2 100644 --- a/Objects/stringobject.c +++ b/Objects/stringobject.c @@ -2850,6 +2850,18 @@ PyString_Format(PyObject *format, PyObject *args) #ifdef INTERN_STRINGS +/* This dictionary will leak at PyString_Fini() time. That's acceptable + * because PyString_Fini() specifically frees interned strings that are + * only referenced by this dictionary. The CVS log entry for revision 2.45 + * says: + * + * Change the Fini function to only remove otherwise unreferenced + * strings from the interned table. There are references in + * hard-to-find static variables all over the interpreter, and it's not + * worth trying to get rid of all those; but "uninterning" isn't fair + * either and may cause subtle failures later -- so we have to keep them + * in the interned table. + */ static PyObject *interned; void |