bpo-32030: Rework memory allocators by vstinner · Pull Request #4625 · python/cpython

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* Fix _PyMem_SetupAllocators("debug"): always restore allocators to
  the defaults, rather than only caling _PyMem_SetupDebugHooks().
* Add _PyMem_SetDefaultAllocator() helper to set the "default"
  allocator.
* Add _PyMem_GetAllocatorsName(): get the name of the allocators
* main() now uses debug hooks on memory allocators if Py_DEBUG is
  defined, rather than calling directly malloc()
* Document default memory allocators in C API documentation
* _Py_InitializeCore() now fails with a fatal user error if
  PYTHONMALLOC value is an unknown memory allocator, instead of
  failing with a fatal internal error.
* Add new tests on the PYTHONMALLOC environment variable

vstinner changed the title ~~bpo-32030: Fix _PyMem_SetupDebugHooks()~~ bpo-32030: Rework memory allocators

Nov 29, 2017

Add the _testcapi.WITH_PYMALLOC constant and expose it as
support.with_pymalloc().

sysconfig.get_config_var('WITH_PYMALLOC') doesn't work on Windows, so
replace it with support.with_pymalloc().