from __future__ import *

realloc.. doesn't?

January 01, 2005 at 10:05 PM | categories: python | View Comments

Apparently, Darwin's implementation of realloc never frees memory if you ask for a smaller size. Python, and probably plenty of other software, assumes that it does, because that's how it behaves on the other platforms (at least Linux and OpenBSD). Oops!

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