The implementation of weakref.proxy's methods call back into the Python
API using a borrowed references of the weakly referenced object
(acquired via PyWeakref_GET_OBJECT). This API call may delete the last
reference to the object (either directly or via GC), leaving a dangling
pointer, which can be subsequently dereferenced.
To fix this, claim a temporary ownership of the referenced object when
calling the appropriate method. Some functions because at the moment they
do not need to access the borrowed referent, but to protect against
future changes to these functions, ownership need to be fixed in
all potentially affected methods.
Valgrind emits "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
value(s)" false alarms on GCC builtin strcmp() function. The GCC code
is correct.
Valgrind bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264936
It is similar to the more general code in the gc module, but
here we know the name of the module.
https://bugs.python.org/issue33714
Automerge-Triggered-By: @encukou
subtract_refs() now pass the parent object to visit_decref() which
pass it to _PyObject_ASSERT(). So if the "is freed" assertion fails,
the parent is used in debug trace, rather than the freed object. The
parent object is more likely to contain useful information. Freed
objects cannot be inspected are are displayed as "<object at xxx is
freed>" with no other detail.
Some objects like Py_None are not initialized with conventional means
that prepare the circular linked list pointers, leaving them unlinked
from the rest of the objects. For those objects, NULL pointers does
not mean that they are freed, so we need to skip the check in those
cases.
In debug mode, PyObject_GC_Track() now calls tp_traverse() of the
object type to ensure that the object is valid: test that objects
visited by tp_traverse() are valid.
Fix pyexpat.c: only track the parser in the GC once the parser is
fully initialized.
Prior to 3.7, re.escape escaped many characters that don't have
special meaning in Python, but that use to require escaping in other
tools and languages. This commit aims to make it clear which characters
were, but are no longer escaped.
bpo-36389, bpo-38376: The _PyObject_CheckConsistency() function is
now also available in release mode. For example, it can be used to
debug a crash in the visit_decref() function of the GC.
Modify the following functions to also work in release mode:
* _PyDict_CheckConsistency()
* _PyObject_CheckConsistency()
* _PyType_CheckConsistency()
* _PyUnicode_CheckConsistency()
Other changes:
* _PyMem_IsPtrFreed(ptr) now also returns 1 if ptr is NULL
(equals to 0).
* _PyBytesWriter_CheckConsistency() now returns 1 and is only used
with assert().
* Reorder _PyObject_Dump() to write safe fields first, and only
attempt to render repr() at the end.
The `required` argument to `argparse.add_subparsers` was added in #3027. This PR specifies the earliest version of Python where it is available.
https://bugs.python.org/issue26510
Automerge-Triggered-By: @merwok
* _Py_FindEnvConfigValue() now returns a string allocated
by PyMem_RawMalloc().
* calculate_init() now decodes VPATH macro.
* Add calculate_open_pyenv() function.
* Add substring() and joinpath2() functions.
* Fix add_exe_suffix()
And a few cleanup changes.
On Windows use UTF-16 (or UTF-32 for 32-bit Tcl_UniChar) with the
"surrogatepass" error handler for converting to/from Tcl Unicode objects.
On Linux use UTF-8 with the "surrogateescape" error handler for converting
to/from Tcl String objects.
Converting strings from Tcl to Python and back now never fails
(except MemoryError).
Following symbolic links is now limited to 40 attempts, just to
prevent loops.
Add subfunctions:
* Add resolve_symlinks()
* Add calculate_argv0_path_framework()
* Add calculate_which()
* Add calculate_program_macos()
Fix also _Py_wreadlink(): readlink() result type is Py_ssize_t, not
int.
* Add log() method: add timestamp and load average prefixes
to main messages.
* WindowsLoadTracker:
* LOAD_FACTOR_1 is now computed using SAMPLING_INTERVAL
* Initialize the load to the arithmetic mean of the first 5 values
of the Processor Queue Length value (so over 5 seconds), rather
than 0.0.
* Handle BrokenPipeError and when typeperf exit.
* format_duration(1.5) now returns '1.5 sec', rather than
'1 sec 500 ms'
test.pythoninfo now logs environment variables used by OpenSSL and
Python ssl modules, and logs attributes of 3 SSL contexts
(SSLContext, default HTTPS context, stdlib context).
* Fix TestWorkerProcess.__repr__(): start_time is only valid
if _popen is not None.
* Fix _kill(): don't set _killed to True if _popen is None.
* _run_process(): only set _killed to False after calling
run_test_in_subprocess().
Pablo Galindo
Victor Stinner
Serhiy Storchaka
Hansraj Das
Antonio Gutierrez
James Abel
Ricardo Bánffy
Ben Harper
Xiang Zhang
Krishna Oza
Hai Shi
Adam J. Stewart
Dong-hee Na
Andrei Troie
nde
Joannah Nanjekye
Vinay Sajip
Ashley Whetter
idomic
Steve Dower
Victor Stinner