cpython

History

Tim Peters 9ea89d2a19 In a PYMALLOC_DEBUG build obmalloc adds extra debugging info to each allocated block. This was using 4 bytes for each such piece of info regardless of platform. This didn't really matter before (proof: no bug reports, and the debug-build obmalloc would have assert-failed if it was ever asked for a chunk of memory >= 232 bytes), since container indices were plain ints. But after the Py_ssize_t changes, it's at least theoretically possible to allocate a list or string whose guts exceed 232 bytes, and the PYMALLOC_DEBUG routines would fail then (having only 4 bytes to record the originally requested size). Now we use sizeof(size_t) bytes for each of a PYMALLOC_DEBUG build's extra debugging fields. This won't make any difference on 32-bit boxes, but will add 16 bytes to each allocation in a debug build on a 64-bit box.		2006-06-04 03:26:02 +00:00
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RPM	2.5a2	2006-04-27 02:13:13 +00:00
Vim	Change C spacing to 4 spaces by default to match PEP 7 for new C files.	2006-05-26 19:04:47 +00:00
ACKS	Bug #1334662 / patch #1335972 : int(string, base) wrong answers.	2006-05-23 18:45:30 +00:00
AIX-NOTES	The fix to use . was incorporated	2003-06-08 02:25:17 +00:00
BeOS-NOTES	…
BeOS-setup.py	Remove regsub, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax and everything under lib-old.	2006-03-16 06:50:13 +00:00
HISTORY	moved older releases into HISTORY	2006-03-20 06:30:41 +00:00
NEWS	In a PYMALLOC_DEBUG build obmalloc adds extra debugging info	2006-06-04 03:26:02 +00:00
NEWS.help	Bug #1014775 : update NEWS.help for changes in docutils.	2004-08-30 14:33:25 +00:00
PURIFY.README	…
Porting	…
README	Add some doc about using valgrind	2004-06-06 19:58:40 +00:00
README.OpenBSD	Add some notes about a recurring problem with OpenBSD	2006-01-09 07:29:03 +00:00
README.valgrind	Add some notes about a couple of poorly behaved tests	2006-04-17 01:49:14 +00:00
RFD	…
SpecialBuilds.txt	In a PYMALLOC_DEBUG build obmalloc adds extra debugging info	2006-06-04 03:26:02 +00:00
build.sh	At least test_threading_local doesn't leak any more.	2006-04-18 03:02:10 +00:00
cheatsheet	Remove regsub, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax and everything under lib-old.	2006-03-16 06:50:13 +00:00
developers.txt	Add SoC name, and reorganize this section a bit	2006-05-30 12:52:01 +00:00
find_recursionlimit.py	Whitespace normalization, via reindent.py.	2004-07-18 06:16:08 +00:00
gdbinit	break sets a breakpoint rather than stopping the loop.	2005-09-05 16:16:49 +00:00
indent.pro	…
pymemcompat.h	Fix grammatically inept comment.	2002-08-22 13:36:11 +00:00
python-config.in	Patch #1161914 : Add python-config.	2006-04-15 08:13:05 +00:00
python-mode.el	Sync with python-mode project. Adds two changes:	2003-12-18 21:53:33 +00:00
python.man	fix two typos in python(1)	2005-03-20 14:16:03 +00:00
setuid-prog.c	…
valgrind-python.supp	Updated gentoo to 2005.0	2005-11-13 18:58:32 +00:00
vgrindefs	…

README

Python Misc subdirectory
========================

This directory contains files that wouldn't fit in elsewhere.  Some
documents are only of historic importance.

Files found here
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ACKS		Acknowledgements
AIX-NOTES	Notes for building Python on AIX
BeOS-NOTES	Notes for building on BeOS
BeOS-setup.py	setup.py replacement for BeOS, see BeOS-NOTES
cheatsheet	Quick summary of Python by Ken Manheimer
find_recursionlimit.py  Script to find a value for sys.maxrecursionlimit
gdbinit		Handy stuff to put in your .gdbinit file, if you use gdb
HISTORY		News from previous releases -- oldest last
HPUX-NOTES	Notes about dynamic loading under HP-UX
indent.pro	GNU indent profile approximating my C style
NEWS		News for this release (for some meaning of "this")
Porting		Mini-FAQ on porting to new platforms
PURIFY.README	Information for Purify users
pymemcompat.h	Memory interface compatibility file.
python.man	UNIX man page for the python interpreter
python-mode.el	Emacs mode for editing Python programs
README		The file you're reading now
README.valgrind	Information for Valgrind users, see valgrind-python.supp
RFD		Request For Discussion about a Python newsgroup
RPM		(Old) tools to build RPMs
SpecialBuilds.txt     Describes extra symbols you can set for debug builds
setuid-prog.c	C helper program for set-uid Python scripts
vgrindefs	Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)
valgrind-python.supp	Valgrind suppression file, see README.valgrind