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PyInterpreterState_New(), PyThreadState_New(): use malloc/free directly.

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This appears to finish repairs for SF bug 1041645.

This is a critical bugfix.
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Tim Peters 2004-10-10 02:47:33 +00:00
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- The C API calls ``PyInterpreterState_New()`` and ``PyThreadState_New()``
are two of the very few advertised as being safe to call without holding
the GIL. However, this wasn't true in a debug build, as bug 1041645
demonstrated. In a debug build, Python redirects the ``PyMem`` family
of calls to Python's small-object allocator, to get the benefit of
its extra debugging capabilities. But Python's small-object allocator
isn't threadsafe, relying on the GIL to avoid the expense of doing its
own locking. ``PyInterpreterState_New()`` and ``PyThreadState_New()``
call the platform ``malloc()`` directly now, regardless of build type.
- PyLong_AsUnsignedLong[Mask] now support int objects as well.
- SF patch #998993: ``PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8Stateful`` and