Sébastien Sablé <sa...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: Yes, I was probably not clear: When --with-dlmalloc is activated, PyMem_MALLOC/PyMem_Malloc will call dlmalloc, PyMem_REALLOC/PyMem_Realloc will call dlrealloc and PyMem_FREE/PyMem_Free will call dlfree.
While calls to malloc/free/realloc will use the platform implementation. So I think there should not be any mix, since as it is mentioned in pymem.h, people should not mix PyMem_MALLOC/PyMem_FREE with malloc/free: /* BEWARE: Each interface exports both functions and macros. Extension modules should use the functions, to ensure binary compatibility across Python versions. Because the Python implementation is free to change internal details, and the macros may (or may not) expose details for speed, if you do use the macros you must recompile your extensions with each Python release. Never mix calls to PyMem_ with calls to the platform malloc/realloc/ calloc/free. For example, on Windows different DLLs may end up using different heaps, and if you use PyMem_Malloc you'll get the memory from the heap used by the Python DLL; it could be a disaster if you free()'ed that directly in your own extension. Using PyMem_Free instead ensures Python can return the memory to the proper heap. As another example, in PYMALLOC_DEBUG mode, Python wraps all calls to all PyMem_ and PyObject_ memory functions in special debugging wrappers that add additional debugging info to dynamic memory blocks. The system routines have no idea what to do with that stuff, and the Python wrappers have no idea what to do with raw blocks obtained directly by the system routines then. The GIL must be held when using these APIs. */ ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3526> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
