Re: [patch] some fixes for the Python scripting backend

"M. Levinson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.links
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul 26, 2006, at 7:25am, "M. Levinson" writes:
>On Jul 24, 2006, at 7:01pm, Witold Filipczyk writes:
>>If you know Python could you say why
>>$ valgrind elinks
>>shows a lot of errors in the Python part of code?
>
>I'll be happy to take a look if I can get valgrind to run. (From a quick
>first glance at http://valgrind.org/ it doesn't appear to support my
>non-Linux platform....)

Okay, I was able to exhume an old Linux box and take a look at valgrind.

I saw valgrind errors related to Python's internal object allocator.
Those appear to be expected; the Python distribution includes a
detailed explanation in Misc/README.valgrind, which also documents
several ways to suppress spurious errors. I tried two of the suggested
approaches (first building Python without the PyMalloc allocator,
and then rebuilding Python with Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER and using
the valgrind suppressions file provided in the Python distribution).
In both cases "valgrind elinks" produced no further errors related
to the Python backend, so in my testing I didn't see evidence of
actual problems in the Python part of the code.
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