Issue 702933: Kill off docs for unsafe macros (original) (raw)

I'll also attach the patch, but a message body is required:

========================== RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/api/memory.tex, v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -w -u -r1.2 memory.tex --- memory.tex 6 Apr 2002 09:14:33 -0000 1.2 +++ memory.tex 13 Mar 2003 12:56:26 -0000 @@ -195,9 +195,7 @@ In addition to the functions aimed at handling raw memory blocks from the Python heap, objects in Python are allocated and released with \cfunction{PyObject_New()}, \cfunction {PyObject_NewVar()} and -\cfunction{PyObject_Del()}, or with their corresponding macros -\cfunction{PyObject_NEW()}, \cfunction {PyObject_NEW_VAR()} and -\cfunction{PyObject_DEL()}. +\cfunction{PyObject_Del()}. These will be explained in the next chapter on defining and implementing new object types in C. Index: newtypes.tex

========================== RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/api/newtypes.te x,v retrieving revision 1.21 diff -w -u -r1.21 newtypes.tex --- newtypes.tex 10 Feb 2003 19🔞21 -0000 1.21 +++ newtypes.tex 13 Mar 2003 12:56:27 -0000 @@ -62,23 +62,6 @@ after this call as the memory is no longer a valid Python object. \end{cfuncdesc} -\begin{cfuncdesc}{\var{TYPE}*}{PyObject_NEW}{TYPE, PyTypeObject *type} - Macro version of \cfunction{PyObject_New()}, to gain performance at - the expense of safety. This does not check \var{type} for a \NULL{} - value. -\end{cfuncdesc}

-\begin{cfuncdesc}{\var{TYPE}*}{PyObject_NEW_VAR} {TYPE, PyTypeObject *type, - int size} - Macro version of \cfunction{PyObject_NewVar()}, to gain performance - at the expense of safety. This does not check \var {type} for a - \NULL{} value. -\end{cfuncdesc}

-\begin{cfuncdesc}{void}{PyObject_DEL}{PyObject *op} - Macro version of \cfunction{PyObject_Del()}. -\end{cfuncdesc}

\begin{cfuncdesc}{PyObject*}{Py_InitModule}{char *name, PyMethodDef *methods} Create a new module object based on a name and table of functions,