[Python-Dev] pymalloc on Windows
M.-A. Lemburg
mal@lemburg.com
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:00:23 +0100
Mark Hammond wrote:
>
> It appears that the _sre and _winreg modules fail to build with
> WITH_PYMALLOC defined.
>
> Both are extension modules, and both use the macro versions of the memory
> allocator functions - ie, PyObject_NEW etc.
>
> Both fail at link time with, eg:
>
> _winreg.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
> __PyCore_ObjectMalloc
>
> I assume from previous discussions here that _PyCore_ObjectMalloc is indeed
> supposed to be private and not exposed from the main module/dll.
That would break lots of code... basically all code using
the macros instead of the functions, I guess.
> I have patches for both these modules. However, I wonder if a more
> pragmatic option is to expose this core function. It would allow
> PyObject_NEW to continue to work as before.
+1
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