From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 01:07:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: News for SF #535905.
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News for SF #535905.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5337c1388090..8ad196dff2ad 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
 
 Core and builtins
 
+- Fixed two bugs reported as SF #535905: under certain conditions,
+  deallocating a deeply nested structure could cause a segfault in the
+  garbage collector, due to interaction with the "trashcan" code;
+  access to the current frame during destruction of a local variable
+  could access a pointer to freed memory.
+
 - The optional object allocator has been enabled by default.
 
 - If you try to pickle an instance of a class that has __slots__ but