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| -rw-r--r-- | rpkid/ext/POW.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/rpkid/ext/POW.c b/rpkid/ext/POW.c index 92ab772e..5ff31812 100644 --- a/rpkid/ext/POW.c +++ b/rpkid/ext/POW.c @@ -8392,6 +8392,24 @@ init_POW(void) PyObject *m = Py_InitModule3("_POW", pow_module_methods, pow_module__doc__); int OpenSSL_ok = 1; + /* + * Python encourages us to use these functions instead of the ones + * in libc, and OpenSSL allows us to do this. The result seems to + * work, and, in theory, gives Python's memory allocator a better + * idea of how much memory we're really using. Not sure why it + * cares, but let's try to be nice about it. + * + * Note that this must be done BEFORE anything in OpenSSL uses + * dynamic memory, and that this will probably fail in horrible ways + * without the build-time code (-Bsymbolic, etc) which isolates our + * copy of the OpenSSL code from any system shared libraries. + * Enough other things already fail in horrible ways without that + * isolation that adding one more doesn't make much difference, but + * if you tinker with the build script and start seeing nasty + * memory-related issues, this might be the cause. + */ + CRYPTO_set_mem_functions(PyMem_Malloc, PyMem_Realloc, PyMem_Free); + #define Define_Class(__type__) \ do { \ char *__name__ = strchr(__type__.tp_name, '.'); \ |