Update Objects/obmalloc.c

colesbury · Yhg1s · web-flow · commit da8b157fc9e0 · 2026-01-05T16:21:57.000-05:00
Co-authored-by: T. Wouters &lt;thomas@python.org&gt;
diff --git a/Objects/obmalloc.c b/Objects/obmalloc.c
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ _PyObject_MiRealloc(void *ctx, void *ptr, size_t nbytes)
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    // Free threaded Python allows safe access to the PyObject reference count
+    // Free threaded Python allows access from other threads to the PyObject reference count
     // fields for a period of time after the object is freed (see InternalDocs/qsbr.md).
     // These fields are typically initialized by PyObject_Init() using relaxed
     // atomic stores. We need to copy these fields in a thread-safe way here.

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ _PyObject_MiRealloc(void ctx, void ptr, size_t nbytes)`
`320`	`320`	`return NULL;`
`321`	`321`	`}`
`322`	`322`
`323`		`- // Free threaded Python allows safe access to the PyObject reference count`
	`323`	`+ // Free threaded Python allows access from other threads to the PyObject reference count`
`324`	`324`	`// fields for a period of time after the object is freed (see InternalDocs/qsbr.md).`
`325`	`325`	`// These fields are typically initialized by PyObject_Init() using relaxed`
`326`	`326`	`// atomic stores. We need to copy these fields in a thread-safe way here.`