Valgrind and Python

[Oren Tirosh]

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 12:01:24PM +0100, Graeme Winter wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Does anyone know of a simple way to instrument the Python code to allow 
> the use of Valgrind? I would like to perform a memory check on my 
> extension which uses the python memory allocation, and I guess that I am 
> not the first to want to do something like this.
> 
> I expect that I will also have to change the compilation so that the 
> Python allocation won't do anything clever.

On Unix/Linux you can build a Python interpreter that uses the default
system malloc using

./configure --without-pymalloc

I don't know the Windows equivalent.

    Oren