[Xapian-discuss] Python bindings not freeing memory during indexing

[Bill Crawford]

On Tuesday 04 September 2007 01:10:19 Olly Betts wrote:
...
> That's not a failed function call - it's the result of called e.what()
> when e is of type std::bad_alloc (I'm not quite sure why it has an
> "St9" prefix - it's not just C++ name mangling).
...

The St is std:: and the 9 is required to indicate the length of the bad_alloc.

There's a description here:

	http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/abi.html#mangling

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