[issue13390] Hunt memory allocations in addition to reference leaks

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> sys.gettotalrefcount() is only defined when Python is compiled in
> debug mode. sys.getallocatedblocks() should only be available when
> the
> right debug option is present. This function is specific to CPython
> anyway, Python module should not rely on this (too much) ;-)

On the contrary, the aim is precisely to provide a memory statistics
function which is available for everyone, not only CPython developers.
It is simply not practical right now for a C extension developer to
check for memory leaks.

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