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Sep 25, 2023
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:func:`!_thread.start_new_thread` now uses raw memory allocator to allocate new thread bootstate. This helps to avoid crashes in case when new thread gets started at interpreter finalization.
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Oh. Please remove this Changelog entry. I don't think that it's worth it. It doesn't impact directly users and it's a recent regression, no?

6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions Modules/_threadmodule.c
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Expand Up @@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ thread_bootstate_free(struct bootstate *boot, int decref)
Py_DECREF(boot->args);
Py_XDECREF(boot->kwargs);
}
PyMem_Free(boot);
PyMem_RawFree(boot);
}


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return NULL;
}

struct bootstate *boot = PyMem_NEW(struct bootstate, 1);
struct bootstate *boot = PyMem_RawMalloc(sizeof(struct bootstate));
if (boot == NULL) {
return PyErr_NoMemory();
}
boot->tstate = _PyThreadState_New(interp);
if (boot->tstate == NULL) {
PyMem_Free(boot);
PyMem_RawFree(boot);
if (!PyErr_Occurred()) {
return PyErr_NoMemory();
}
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