STINNER Victor added the comment: The motivation to support PYTHONMALLOC=malloc (always use malloc) and not just PYTHONMALLOC=debug (enable debug hooks) is to allow to use external memory debugger like Valgrind.
Valgrind doesn't like pymalloc (pymalloc raises false alarms), we had to a configuration option for it: ./configure --with-valgrind. Using PYTHONMALLOC=malloc allows to use Valgrind on the system Python, it's easier to use. No need to recompile Python. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26516> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
