Commit e5f2cc67 authored by Benjamin Peterson's avatar Benjamin Peterson

merge 3.6

parents fe4ff830 35a1f7f6
......@@ -396,21 +396,23 @@ Miscellaneous options
defines the following possible values:
* ``-X faulthandler`` to enable :mod:`faulthandler`;
* ``-X showrefcount`` to enable the output of the total reference count
and memory blocks (only works on debug builds);
* ``-X showrefcount`` to output the total reference count and number of used
memory blocks when the program finishes or after each statement in the
interactive interpreter. This only works on debug builds.
* ``-X tracemalloc`` to start tracing Python memory allocations using the
:mod:`tracemalloc` module. By default, only the most recent frame is
stored in a traceback of a trace. Use ``-X tracemalloc=NFRAME`` to start
tracing with a traceback limit of *NFRAME* frames. See the
:func:`tracemalloc.start` for more information.
* ``-X showalloccount`` to enable the output of the total count of allocated
objects for each type (only works when built with ``COUNT_ALLOCS`` defined);
* ``-X showalloccount`` to output the total count of allocated objects for
each type when the program finishes. This only works when Python was built with
``COUNT_ALLOCS`` defined.
It also allows passing arbitrary values and retrieving them through the
:data:`sys._xoptions` dictionary.
.. versionchanged:: 3.2
It is now allowed to pass :option:`-X` with CPython.
The :option:`-X` option was added.
.. versionadded:: 3.3
The ``-X faulthandler`` option.
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