News for SF #535905.

95b62a6d · Guido van Rossum · b1af6376 · 95b62a6d
Commit 95b62a6d authored Mar 29, 2002 by Guido van Rossum
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 Core and builtins

+- Fixed two bugs reported as SF #535905: under certain conditions,
+  deallocating a deeply nested structure could cause a segfault in the
+  garbage collector, due to interaction with the "trashcan" code;
+  access to the current frame during destruction of a local variable
+  could access a pointer to freed memory.
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 - The optional object allocator has been enabled by default.

 - If you try to pickle an instance of a class that has __slots__ but