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[Python-Dev] PyObject_New vs PyObject_NEW

David Abrahams dave@boost-consulting.com
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:09:17 -0500 
Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net> writes:

>> Sure, but that's only an issue if you are allocating resources in one
>> runtime lib and deallocating in another AFAIK.  There's nothing
>> beyond memory allocation going on here, and the type object in
>> question has a custom deallocator which goes to the same runtime that
>> allocated it.
>
> See my later msg -- returning memory to a heap it wasn't obtained from is
> fatal enough.  

I think that's exactly what I said.

> The object memory itself is in question here, not memory
> allocated *by* the object.  

I think that's also exactly what I thought.

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Dave Abrahams
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