[Python-Dev] No longer enable Py_TRACE_REFS by default in debug build (original) (raw)

Steve Dower steve.dower at python.org
Tue Apr 9 16:16:29 EDT 2019

On 09Apr2019 0925, Victor Stinner wrote:

This change makes the debug build ABI closer to the release build ABI, but I am not sure how to compare these two ABI. Technically, C extensions still need to be recompiled.

What do you think?

What are the other changes that would be required? And is there another way to get the same functionality without ABI modifications?

I think it's worthwhile if we can really get to debug and non-debug builds being ABI compatible. Getting partway there in this case doesn't seem to offer any benefits.

Cheers, Steve

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