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Issue 2599: python - fix buffer overflows in unicode processing and elsewhere SVN Base: http://svn.python.org/view/*checkout*/python/trunk/

Patch Set: Created 1 year, 4 months ago , Downloaded from: http://bugs.python.org/file10825/issue2620-gps02-patch.txt

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--- Doc/c-api/memory.rst (revision 64754)

+++ Doc/c-api/memory.rst (working copy)

@@ -136,7 +136,9 @@

Same as :cfunc:`PyMem_Realloc`, but the memory block is resized to ``(n *

sizeof(TYPE))`` bytes. Returns a pointer cast to :ctype:`TYPE\*`. On return,

- *p* will be a pointer to the new memory area, or *NULL* in the event of failure.

+ *p* will be a pointer to the new memory area, or *NULL* in the event of

+ failure. This is a C preprocessor macro; p is always reassigned. Save

+ the original value of p to avoid losing memory when handling errors.

.. cfunction:: void PyMem_Del(void *p)

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