[pypy-commit] pypy default: comment explaining the problem

[cfbolz]

Author: Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick <cfbolz at gmx.de>
Branch: 
Changeset: r95396:b787df64587c
Date: 2018-12-02 14:23 +0100
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/b787df64587c/

Log:	comment explaining the problem

diff --git a/rpython/rlib/rtime.py b/rpython/rlib/rtime.py
--- a/rpython/rlib/rtime.py
+++ b/rpython/rlib/rtime.py
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@
     void = lltype.nullptr(rffi.VOIDP.TO)
     result = -1.0
     if HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY:
+        # NB: can't use lltype.scoped_malloc, because that will allocate the
+        # with handler in the GC, but we want to use time.time from gc.collect!
         t = lltype.malloc(TIMEVAL, flavor='raw')
         try:
             errcode = -1