From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:56:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Make tuples less hungry -- an extra item was allocated but never used.
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2b1~229
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=017f7780a88656172af93a2e164b20468fd9c45c;p=python

Make tuples less hungry -- an extra item was allocated but never used.
Tip by Vladimir Marangozov.
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diff --git a/Objects/tupleobject.c b/Objects/tupleobject.c
index 9bc1fe7416..2286b01dbe 100644
--- a/Objects/tupleobject.c
+++ b/Objects/tupleobject.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ PyTuple_New(size)
 #endif
 	{
 		op = (PyTupleObject *) malloc(
-			sizeof(PyTupleObject) + size * sizeof(PyObject *));
+			sizeof(PyTupleObject) + (size-1) * sizeof(PyObject *));
 		if (op == NULL)
 			return PyErr_NoMemory();