[Python-Dev] Debug entry points for PyMalloc

[Aahz]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Aahz]
>>
>> I'm almost certainly betraying my ignorance here, but it sounds to
>> me like malloc isn't doing any sanity checking to make sure that the
>> memory it received isn't already being used.
> 
> Well, malloc doesn't receive memory, it allocates it, and
> _PyMalloc_DebugMalloc just wraps somebody *else's* malloc.  It's not trying
> to debug the platform malloc, it's trying to debug "the user's" (Python's)
> use of the memory malloc returns.

Okay, you *really* meant it when you said that your debug wrapper
doesn't touch the underlying malloc() implmentation.  ;-)
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