From 89461ef8fcc87996791a383f1973542a3487ce4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:19:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #11675:  Zero-out newly-created
 multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects.

---
 Lib/multiprocessing/sharedctypes.py |  4 +++-
 Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py    | 15 +++++++++++++++
 Misc/NEWS                           |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/sharedctypes.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/sharedctypes.py
index e83ce584596..1e694da49d9 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/sharedctypes.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/sharedctypes.py
@@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ def RawArray(typecode_or_type, size_or_initializer):
     type_ = typecode_to_type.get(typecode_or_type, typecode_or_type)
     if isinstance(size_or_initializer, int):
         type_ = type_ * size_or_initializer
-        return _new_value(type_)
+        obj = _new_value(type_)
+        ctypes.memset(ctypes.addressof(obj), 0, ctypes.sizeof(obj))
+        return obj
     else:
         type_ = type_ * len(size_or_initializer)
         result = _new_value(type_)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
index f4031de61fd..1136ab2920e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -913,6 +913,21 @@ class _TestArray(BaseTestCase):
 
         self.assertEqual(list(arr[:]), seq)
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(c_int is None, "requires _ctypes")
+    def test_array_from_size(self):
+        size = 10
+        # Test for zeroing (see issue #11675).
+        # The repetition below strengthens the test by increasing the chances
+        # of previously allocated non-zero memory being used for the new array
+        # on the 2nd and 3rd loops.
+        for _ in range(3):
+            arr = self.Array('i', size)
+            self.assertEqual(len(arr), size)
+            self.assertEqual(list(arr), [0] * size)
+            arr[:] = range(10)
+            self.assertEqual(list(arr), list(range(10)))
+            del arr
+
     @unittest.skipIf(c_int is None, "requires _ctypes")
     def test_rawarray(self):
         self.test_array(raw=True)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fca77ef65e3..6825931972b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.1.4?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
+  are now zeroed on creation.  This matches the behaviour specified by the
+  documentation.
+
 - Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
   doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
   (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).