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| author | Gagandeep Singh <gdp.1807@gmail.com> | 2021-11-02 11:28:17 +0530 |
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| committer | Gagandeep Singh <gdp.1807@gmail.com> | 2021-11-02 11:28:17 +0530 |
| commit | c04509e86e97a69a0b5fcbeebdbec66faad3dbe0 (patch) | |
| tree | b5940db3ad46e55b88d566ec058007dc3c6b7e72 /doc/source/reference/global_state.rst | |
| parent | 56647dd47345a7fd24b4ee8d9d52025fcdc3b9ae (diff) | |
| parent | fae6fa47a3cf9b9c64af2f5bd11a3b644b1763d2 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/source/reference/global_state.rst b/doc/source/reference/global_state.rst index f18481235..20874ceaa 100644 --- a/doc/source/reference/global_state.rst +++ b/doc/source/reference/global_state.rst @@ -84,3 +84,13 @@ contiguous in memory. Most users will have no reason to change these; for details see the :ref:`memory layout <memory-layout>` documentation. + +Warn if no memory allocation policy when deallocating data +---------------------------------------------------------- + +Some users might pass ownership of the data pointer to the ``ndarray`` by +setting the ``OWNDATA`` flag. If they do this without setting (manually) a +memory allocation policy, the default will be to call ``free``. If +``NUMPY_WARN_IF_NO_MEM_POLICY`` is set to ``"1"``, a ``RuntimeWarning`` will +be emitted. A better alternative is to use a ``PyCapsule`` with a deallocator +and set the ``ndarray.base``. |