From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:20:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention pymemcompat.h.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~5266
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fe0ca4a0f50ca90359d3c619fad98bbe018ca7d2;p=python

Mention pymemcompat.h.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 486c562ef4..7171c9c35d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -99,7 +99,12 @@ Core and builtins
   access to the current frame during destruction of a local variable
   could access a pointer to freed memory.
 
-- The optional object allocator has been enabled by default.
+- The optional object allocator ("pymalloc") has been enabled by
+  default.  The recommended practice for memory allocation and
+  deallocation has been streamlined.  A header file is included,
+  Misc/pymemcompat.h, which can be bundled with 3rd party extensions
+  and lets them use the same API with Python versions from 1.5.2
+  onwards.
 
 - If you try to pickle an instance of a class that has __slots__ but
   doesn't define or override __getstate__, a TypeError is now raised.