Spotted by the PyPy developers.
Original commit is:
branch: trunk
user: guido
date: Mon Aug 19 21:32:04 1996 +0200
files: Python/getargs.c
description:
[svn r6499] Support for keyword arguments (PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords) donated by
Geoff Philbrick <philbric@delphi.hks.com> (slightly changed by me).
Also a little change to make the file acceptable to K&R C compilers
(HPUX, SunOS 4.x).
to integer PyArg_Parse* format codes into a TypeError. Add a
DeprecationWarning for floats passed with the 'L' format code, which
didn't previously have a warning.
exception afterwards (for a subsequent parameter), the user code will
not call PyBuffer_Release() and memory will leak.
Reviewed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
* crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc
* memory leaks found with valgrind
* compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads
* problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker
Update the valgrind suppressions file with new leaks that are small/one-time
leaks we don't care about (ie, they are too hard to fix).
TBR=barry
TESTED=./python -E -tt ./Lib/test/regrtest.py -uall (both debug and opt modes)
in opt mode:
valgrind -q --leak-check=yes --suppressions=Misc/valgrind-python.supp \
./python -E -tt ./Lib/test/regrtest.py -uall,-bsddb,-compiler \
-x test_logging test_ssl test_multiprocessing
valgrind -q --leak-check=yes --suppressions=Misc/valgrind-python.supp \
./python -E -tt ./Lib/test/regrtest.py test_multiprocessing
for i in `seq 1 4000` ; do
LD_PRELOAD=~/local/lib/libfailmalloc.so FAILMALLOC_INTERVAL=$i \
./python -c pass
done
At least some of these fixes should probably be backported to 2.5.
My tests don't show the promised speed up of 10%. The code is as fast as the old code for simple cases and slightly faster for complex cases with several of args and kwargs. But the patch simplifies the code, too.
* unified the way intobject, longobject and mystrtoul handle
values around -sys.maxint-1.
* in general, trying to entierely avoid overflows in any computation
involving signed ints or longs is extremely involved. Fixed a few
simple cases where a compiler might be too clever (but that's all
guesswork).
* more overflow checks against bad data in marshal.c.
* 2.5 specific: fixed a number of places that were still confusing int
and Py_ssize_t. Some of them could potentially have caused
"real-world" breakage.
* list.pop(x): fixing overflow issues on x was messy. I just reverted
to PyArg_ParseTuple("n"), which does the right thing. (An obscure
test was trying to give a Decimal to list.pop()... doesn't make
sense any more IMHO)
* trying to write a few tests...
