> To put it another way, would it actually matter if the reference > counts for such objects became hopelessly wrong due to non-atomic > adjustments?
If they drop to zero (which may happen due to non-atomic adjustments), Python will try to release the static memory, which will crash the malloc implementation. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
