[Python-Dev] Windows and PyObject_NEW

[Greg Stein]

On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Gordon McMillan wrote:
>...
> I doubt very much that you would break anybody's code by 
> removing the Windows specific behavior.
> 
> But it seems to me that unless Python always uses the 
> default malloc, those of us who write C++ extensions will have 
> to override operator new? I'm not sure. I've used placement 
> new to allocate objects in a memory mapped file, but I've never 
> tried to muck with the global memory policy of C++ program.

Actually, the big problem arises when you have debug vs. non-debug DLLs.
malloc() uses different heaps based on the debug setting. As a result, it
is a bad idea to call malloc() from a debug DLL and free() it from a
non-debug DLL.

If the allocation pattern is fixed, then things may be okay. IF.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/