[Python-Dev] Suggested memory API rules for 2.3 (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Wed, 03 Apr 2002 17:09:07 -0500

Use as Function Designators

Programs shall not use use a name from line B, C, D, F, G or H in a C context requiring a function designator. Names from lines A and E may be used in C contexts requiring a function designator. A function designator is a C expression having function type; C contexts requiring a function designator include as an actual argument to a function taking a function argument.

[Skip Montanaro]

This just means that PyMem{Malloc, Realloc, Free} and PyObject{Malloc, Realloc, Free} will be implemented as functions or simple macros that expand to a single function call, and that the others can be all sorts of CPP gobbledygook, right?

That was my intent, but it's hard to predict how courts will rule .

The only thing that threw me a little was the alphabet soup

Fred needs to work with me to make the real docs comprehensible; all this stuff is on top of what's already said in the docs, and I believe rearrangement is called for (like combining the scattered sections about the memory APIs, for a start).