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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 235d8b69ba..cef55d5a43 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -878,6 +878,17 @@ plain tuple. (Contributed by Claudiu Popa in :issue:`18901`.) :meth:`sunau.open` now supports the context manager protocol (:issue:`18878`). +sys +--- + +New function :func:`sys.getallocatedblocks` returns the current number of +blocks allocated by the interpreter (in CPython with the default +``--with-pymalloc`` setting, this is allocations made through the +:c:func:`PyObject_Malloc` API). This can be useful for tracking memory leaks, +especially if automated via a test suite. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou +in :issue:`13390`.) + + traceback --------- @@ -1055,6 +1066,17 @@ Other improvements script at the windows command prompt by just typing its name without the ``.py`` extension. (Contributed by Paul Moore in :issue:`18569`.) +* A new ``make`` target `coverage-report + <http://docs.python.org/devguide/coverage.html#measuring-coverage-of-c-code-with-gcov-and-lcov>`_ + will build python, run the test suite, and generate an HTML coverage report + for the C codebase using ``gcov`` and `lcov + <http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php>`_. + +* The ``-R`` option to the :ref:`python regression test suite <regrtest>` now + also checks for memory allocation leaks, using + :func:`sys.getallocatedblocks()`. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in + :issue:`13390`). + Optimizations ============= @@ -1141,13 +1163,15 @@ Removed removed (see the `devguide <http://docs.python.org/devguide>`_ for what to use instead). - * OS/2 support code has been removed from the source tree and build tools (:issue:`16135`). * Windows 2000 support code has been removed from the source tree and build tools (changeset e52df05b496a). +* The ``SO`` makefile macro is removed (it was replaced by the + ``SHLIB_SUFFIX`` and ``EXT_SUFFIX`` macros) (:issue:`16754`). + Porting to Python 3.4 ===================== |