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Author pitrou
Recipients dmalcolm, joshbressers, pitrou, vstinner
Date 2010-10-13.16:35:47
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> You would be wise to avoid using heap storage once you're in the crash
> handler. From a security standpoint, if something has managed to
> damage the heap (which is not uncommon in a crash), you should not
> attempt to allocate or free heap memory.

As far as I can tell, the signal handler in the patch doesn't call
malloc() or free(), neither directly nor indirectly.
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Date User Action Args
2010-10-13 16:35:48pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, vstinner, dmalcolm, joshbressers
2010-10-13 16:35:47pitroulinkissue8863 messages
2010-10-13 16:35:47pitroucreate