Add _PyUnicode_FiniTypes() function, called by
finalize_interp_types(). It clears these static types:
* EncodingMapType
* PyFieldNameIter_Type
* PyFormatterIter_Type
_PyStaticType_Dealloc() now does nothing if tp_subclasses
is not NULL.
Add 'static_exceptions' list to factorize code between
_PyExc_InitTypes() and _PyBuiltins_AddExceptions().
_PyExc_InitTypes() does nothing if it's not the main interpreter.
Sort exceptions in Lib/test/exception_hierarchy.txt.
* Move PyContext static types into object.c static_types list.
* Rename PyContextTokenMissing_Type to _PyContextTokenMissing_Type
and declare it in pycore_context.h.
* _PyHamtItems types are no long exported: replace PyAPI_DATA() with
extern.
Add a new _PyType_GetSubclasses() function to get type's subclasses.
_PyType_GetSubclasses(type) returns a list which holds strong
refererences to subclasses. It is safer than iterating on
type->tp_subclasses which yields weak references and can be modified
in the loop.
_PyType_GetSubclasses(type) now holds a reference to the tp_subclasses
dict while creating the list of subclasses.
set_collection_flag_recursive() of _abc.c now uses
_PyType_GetSubclasses().
Add _PyTypes_FiniTypes() best-effort function to clear static types:
don't deallocate a type if it still has subclasses.
remove_subclass() now sets tp_subclasses to NULL when removing the
last subclass.
The _curses module now creates its ncurses_version type as a heap
type using PyStructSequence_NewType(), rather than using a static
type.
* Move _PyStructSequence_FiniType() definition to pycore_structseq.h.
* test.pythoninfo: log curses.ncurses_version.
Add _PyStructSequence_FiniType() and _PyStaticType_Dealloc()
functions to finalize a structseq static type in Py_Finalize().
Currrently, these functions do nothing if Python is built in release
mode.
Clear static types:
* AsyncGenHooksType: sys.set_asyncgen_hooks()
* FlagsType: sys.flags
* FloatInfoType: sys.float_info
* Hash_InfoType: sys.hash_info
* Int_InfoType: sys.int_info
* ThreadInfoType: sys.thread_info
* UnraisableHookArgsType: sys.unraisablehook
* VersionInfoType: sys.version
* WindowsVersionType: sys.getwindowsversion()
* Add RETURN_GENERATOR and JUMP_NO_INTERRUPT opcodes.
* Trim frame and generator by word each.
* Minor refactor of frame.c
* Update test.test_sys to account for smaller frames.
* Treat generator functions as normal functions when evaluating and specializing.
Previously, the main interpreter was allocated on the heap during runtime initialization. Here we instead embed it into _PyRuntimeState, which means it is statically allocated as part of the _PyRuntime global. The same goes for the initial thread state (of each interpreter, including the main one). Consequently there are fewer allocations during runtime/interpreter init, fewer possible failures, and better memory locality.
FYI, this also helps efforts to consolidate globals, which in turns helps work on subinterpreter isolation.
https://bugs.python.org/issue45953
The empty bytes object (b'') and the 256 one-character bytes objects were allocated at runtime init. Now we statically allocate and initialize them.
https://bugs.python.org/issue45953
Move almost all private functions of Include/cpython/fileutils.h to
the internal C API Include/internal/pycore_fileutils.h.
Only keep _Py_fopen_obj() in Include/cpython/fileutils.h, since it's
used by _testcapi which must not use the internal C API.
Move EncodeLocaleEx() and DecodeLocaleEx() functions from _testcapi
to _testinternalcapi, since the C API moved to the internal C API.
This reverts commit ea251806b8.
Keep "assert(interned == NULL);" in _PyUnicode_Fini(), but only for
the main interpreter.
Keep _PyUnicode_ClearInterned() changes avoiding the creation of a
temporary Python list object.
* bpo-46218: Change long_pow() to sliding window algorithm
The primary motivation is to eliminate long_pow's reliance on that the number of bits in a long "digit" is a multiple of 5. Now it no longer cares how many bits are in a digit.
But the sliding window approach also allows cutting the precomputed table of small powers in half, which reduces initialization overhead enough that the approach pays off for smaller exponents too. Depending on exponent bit patterns, a sliding window may also be able to save some bigint multiplies (sometimes when at least 5 consecutive exponent bits are 0, regardless of their starting bit position modulo 5).
Note: boosting the window width to 6 didn't work well overall. It give marginal speed improvements for huge exponents, but the increased overhead (the small-power table needs twice as many entries) made it a loss for smaller exponents.
Co-authored-by: Oleg Iarygin <dralife@yandex.ru>
* Do not PUSH/POP traceback or type to the stack as part of exc_info
* Remove exc_traceback and exc_type from _PyErr_StackItem
* Add to what's new, because this change breaks things like Cython
The array of small PyLong objects has been statically declared. Here I also statically initialize them. Consequently they are no longer initialized dynamically during runtime init.
I've also moved them under a new sub-struct in _PyRuntimeState, in preparation for static allocation and initialization of other global objects.
https://bugs.python.org/issue45953
When Python is embedded in other applications, it is not easy to determine which version of Python is being used. This change exposes the Python version as part of the API data. Tools like Austin (https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin) can benefit from this data when targeting applications like uWSGI, as the Python version can then be inferred systematically by looking at the exported symbols rather than relying on unreliable pattern matching or other hacks (like remote code execution etc...).
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:pablogsal
This change is strictly renames and moving code around. It helps in the following ways:
* ensures type-related init functions focus strictly on one of the three aspects (state, objects, types)
* passes in PyInterpreterState * to all those functions, simplifying work on moving types/objects/state to the interpreter
* consistent naming conventions help make what's going on more clear
* keeping API related to a type in the corresponding header file makes it more obvious where to look for it
https://bugs.python.org/issue46008
Exclude the PyUnicode_CHECK_INTERNED() macro from the limited C API,
because it uses the PyASCIIObject structure which is excluded from
the limited C API.
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:encukou
Previously, basic initialization of PyInterprterState happened in PyInterpreterState_New() (along with allocation and adding the new interpreter to the runtime state). This prevented us from initializing interpreter states that were allocated separately (e.g. statically or in a free list). We've addressed that here by factoring out a separate function just for initialization. We've done the same for PyThreadState. _PyRuntimeState was sorted out when we added it since _PyRuntime is statically allocated. However, here we update the existing init code to line up with the functions for PyInterpreterState and PyThreadState.
https://bugs.python.org/issue46008
PyInterpreterState_Main() is a plain function exposed in the public C-API. For internal usage we can take the more efficient approach in this PR.
https://bugs.python.org/issue46008
This simplifies new_threadstate(). We also rename _PyThreadState_Init() to _PyThreadState_SetCurrent() to reflect what it actually does.
https://bugs.python.org/issue46008
This parallels _PyRuntimeState.interpreters. Doing this helps make it more clear what part of PyInterpreterState relates to its threads.
https://bugs.python.org/issue46008
This falls into the category of keep-allocation-and-initialization separate. It also allows us to use _PyEval_InitState() safely in functions that return void.
https://bugs.python.org/issue46008
* Make generator, coroutine and async gen structs all the same size.
* Store interpreter frame in generator (and coroutine). Reduces the number of allocations neeeded for a generator from two to one.
The getpath.py file is frozen at build time and executed as code over a namespace. It is never imported, nor is it meant to be importable or reusable. However, it should be easier to read, modify, and patch than the previous code.
This commit attempts to preserve every previously tested quirk, but these may be changed in the future to better align platforms.
Rename PyConfig.no_debug_ranges to PyConfig.code_debug_ranges and
invert the value.
Document -X no_debug_ranges and PYTHONNODEBUGRANGES env var in
PyConfig.code_debug_ranges documentation.
* Split exit paths into exceptional and non-exceptional.
* Move exit tracing code to individual bytecodes.
* Wrap all trace entry and exit events in macros to make them clearer and easier to enhance.
* Move return sequence into RETURN_VALUE, YIELD_VALUE and YIELD_FROM. Distinguish between normal trace events and dtrace events.
The following internal macros can not longer be used as l-value:
* asdl_seq_GET()
* asdl_seq_GET_UNTYPED()
* asdl_seq_LEN()
They are modified to use the _Py_RVALUE() macro.
Add a new _Py_RVALUE() macro to prevent using an expression as an
l-value.
Replace a "(void)" cast with the _Py_RVALUE() macro in the following
macros:
* PyCell_SET()
* PyList_SET_ITEM()
* PyTuple_SET_ITEM()
* _PyGCHead_SET_FINALIZED()
* _PyGCHead_SET_NEXT()
* asdl_seq_SET()
* asdl_seq_SET_UNTYPED()
Add also parentheses around macro arguments in PyCell_SET() and
PyTuple_SET_ITEM() macros.
* Make internal APIs that take PyFrameConstructor take a PyFunctionObject instead.
* Add reference to function to frame, borrow references to builtins and globals.
* Add COPY_FREE_VARS instruction to allow specialization of calls to inner functions.
This gains 10% or more in startup time for `python -c pass` on UNIX-ish systems.
The Makefile.pre.in generating code builds on Eric's work for bpo-45020, but the .c file generator is new.
Windows version TBD.
Currently custom modules (the array set on PyImport_FrozenModules) replace all the frozen stdlib modules. That can be problematic and is unlikely to be what the user wants. This change treats the custom frozen modules as additions instead. They take precedence over all other frozen modules except for those needed to bootstrap the import system. If the "code" field of an entry in the custom array is NULL then that frozen module is treated as disabled, which allows a custom entry to disable a frozen stdlib module.
This change allows us to get rid of is_essential_frozen_module() and simplifies the logic for which frozen modules should be ignored.
https://bugs.python.org/issue45395
The recently added PyConfig.stdlib_dir was being set with ".." entries. When __file__ was added for from modules this caused a problem on out-of-tree builds. This PR fixes that by normalizing "stdlib_dir" when it is calculated in getpath.c.
https://bugs.python.org/issue45506
Freelists for object structs can now be disabled. A new ``configure``
option ``--without-freelists`` can be used to disable all freelists
except empty tuple singleton. Internal Py*_MAXFREELIST macros can now
be defined as 0 without causing compiler warnings and segfaults.
Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
Also, reword the What's New messages: this doesn't change the limited API, it only brings the Py_LIMITED_API macro closer to the ideal of only allowing the limited API.
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:encukou
The Python 3.11 limited C API no longer includes stdlib.h, stdio.h,
string.h and errno.h.
* Exclude Py_MEMCPY() from Python 3.11 limited C API.
* xxlimited C extension is now built with Python 3.11 limited C API.
Move Include/longobject.h non-limited API to a new
Include/cpython/longobject.h header file.
Move the following definitions to the internal C API:
* _PyLong_DigitValue
* _PyLong_FormatAdvancedWriter()
* _PyLong_FormatWriter()
Split header files to move the non-limited API to Include/cpython/:
* Include/warnings.h => Include/cpython/warnings.h
* Include/weakrefobject.h => Include/cpython/weakrefobject.h
Exclude PyWeakref_GET_OBJECT() from the limited C API. It never
worked since the PyWeakReference structure is opaque in the limited C
API.
Move _PyWarnings_Init() and _PyErr_WarnUnawaitedCoroutine() to the
internal C API.
The default was "off". Switching it to "on" means users get the benefit of frozen stdlib modules without having to do anything. There's a special-case for running-in-source-tree, so contributors don't get surprised when their stdlib changes don't get used.
https://bugs.python.org/issue45020
Remove fallbacks for missing round(), copysign() and hypot() in
Python/pymath.c. Python now requires these functions to build.
These fallbacks were needed on Visual Studio 2012 and older. They are
no longer needed since Visual Stuido 2013. Python is now built with
Visual Studio 2017 or newer since Python 3.6.
Convert the result of macros setting variables to void to avoid risks
of misusing them:
* _PyGCHead_SET_NEXT()
* asdl_seq_SET()
* asdl_seq_SET_UNTYPED()
Add PyThreadState_EnterTracing() and PyThreadState_LeaveTracing()
functions to the limited C API to suspend and resume tracing and
profiling.
Add an unit test on the PyThreadState C API to _testcapi.
Add also internal _PyThreadState_DisableTracing() and
_PyThreadState_ResetTracing().
Rename Include/namespaceobject.h to
Include/internal/pycore_namespace.h.
The _testmultiphase extension is now built with the
Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULE macro defined to access _PyNamespace_Type.
object.c: remove unused "pycore_context.h" include.
Move classobject.h, context.h, genobject.h and longintrepr.h header
files from Include/ to Include/cpython/.
Remove redundant "#ifndef Py_LIMITED_API" in context.h.
Remove explicit #include "longintrepr.h" in C files. It's not needed,
Python.h already includes it.
Remove two functions from the limited C API:
* PyMarshal_WriteLongToFile()
* PyMarshal_WriteObjectToFile()
The PEP 384 excludes functions expecting "FILE*" from the stable ABI.
Remove also the Py_MARSHAL_VERSION macro from the limited C API.
* Move _PyObject_VectorcallTstate() and _PyObject_FastCallTstate() to
pycore_call.h (internal C API).
* Convert PyObject_CallOneArg(), PyObject_Vectorcall(),
_PyObject_FastCall() and PyVectorcall_Function() static inline
functions to regular functions.
* Add _PyVectorcall_FunctionInline() static inline function.
* PyObject_Vectorcall(), _PyObject_FastCall(), and
PyObject_CallOneArg() now call _PyThreadState_GET() rather
than PyThreadState_Get().
They support now splitting escape sequences between input chunks.
Add the third parameter "final" in codecs.raw_unicode_escape_decode().
It is True by default to match the former behavior.
They support now splitting escape sequences between input chunks.
Add the third parameter "final" in codecs.unicode_escape_decode().
It is True by default to match the former behavior.
Building Python now requires a C99 <math.h> header file providing
isinf(), isnan() and isfinite() functions.
Remove the Py_FORCE_DOUBLE() macro. It was used by the
Py_IS_INFINITY() macro.
Changes:
* Remove Py_IS_NAN(), Py_IS_INFINITY() and Py_IS_FINITE()
in PC/pyconfig.h.
* Remove the _Py_force_double() function.
* configure no longer checks if math.h defines isinf(), isnan() and
isfinite().
Move Include/pystrhex.h to Include/internal/pycore_strhex.h.
The header file only contains private functions.
The following C extensions are now built with Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULE
macro defined to get access to the internal C API:
* _blake2
* _hashopenssl
* _md5
* _sha1
* _sha3
* _ssl
* binascii
* Never change types' cached keys. It could invalidate inline attribute objects.
* Lazily create object dictionaries.
* Update specialization of LOAD/STORE_ATTR.
* Don't update shared keys version for deletion of value.
* Update gdb support to handle instance values.
* Rename SPLIT_KEYS opcodes to INSTANCE_VALUE.
Redefining the PyThreadState_GET() macro in pycore_pystate.h is
useless since it doesn't affect files not including it. Either use
_PyThreadState_GET() directly, or don't use pycore_pystate.h internal
C API. For example, the _testcapi extension don't use the internal C
API, but use the public PyThreadState_Get() function instead.
Replace PyThreadState_Get() with _PyThreadState_GET(). The
_PyThreadState_GET() macro is more efficient than PyThreadState_Get()
and PyThreadState_GET() function calls which call fail with a fatal
Python error.
posixmodule.c and _ctypes extension now include <windows.h> before
pycore header files (like pycore_call.h).
_PyTraceback_Add() now uses _PyErr_Fetch()/_PyErr_Restore() instead
of PyErr_Fetch()/PyErr_Restore().
The _decimal and _xxsubinterpreters extensions are now built with the
Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULE macro defined to get access to the internal C
API.
* Move _PyObject_CallNoArgs() to pycore_call.h (internal C API).
* _ssl, _sqlite and _testcapi extensions now call the public
PyObject_CallNoArgs() function, rather than _PyObject_CallNoArgs().
* _lsprof extension is now built with Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULE macro
defined to get access to internal _PyObject_CallNoArgs().
Fix typo in the private _PyObject_CallNoArg() function name: rename
it to _PyObject_CallNoArgs() to be consistent with the public
function PyObject_CallNoArgs().
Add _PyVectorcall_Call() helper function.
Add "assert(PyCallable_Check(callable));" to PyVectorcall_Call(),
similar check than PyVectorcall_Function().
Move definitions of copysign(), round(), hypot(), fmod(), etc. from
pymath.h to pycore_pymath.h. These functions are not exported by
libpython and so must not be part of the C API.
Move the following macros , to pycore_pymath.h (internal C API):
* _Py_SET_53BIT_PRECISION_HEADER
* _Py_SET_53BIT_PRECISION_START
* _Py_SET_53BIT_PRECISION_END
PEP 7: add braces to if and "do { ... } while (0)" in these macros.
Move also _Py_get_387controlword() and _Py_set_387controlword()
definitions to pycore_pymath.h. These functions are no longer
exported.
pystrtod.c now includes pycore_pymath.h.
* Move limits.h include and UCHAR_MAX checks to pyport.h.
* Move sanitizers macros to pyport.h.
* Remove comment about <assert.h>: C extensions are built with NDEBUG
automatically by Python.
Remove the following math macros using the errno variable:
* Py_ADJUST_ERANGE1()
* Py_ADJUST_ERANGE2()
* Py_OVERFLOWED()
* Py_SET_ERANGE_IF_OVERFLOW()
* Py_SET_ERRNO_ON_MATH_ERROR()
Create pycore_pymath.h internal header file.
Rename Py_ADJUST_ERANGE1() and Py_ADJUST_ERANGE2() to
_Py_ADJUST_ERANGE1() and _Py_ADJUST_ERANGE2(), and convert these
macros to static inline functions.
Move the following macros to pycore_pymath.h:
* _Py_IntegralTypeSigned()
* _Py_IntegralTypeMax()
* _Py_IntegralTypeMin()
* _Py_InIntegralTypeRange()
In the list of generated frozen modules at the top of Tools/scripts/freeze_modules.py, you will find that some of the modules have a different name than the module (or .py file) that is actually frozen. Let's call each case an "alias". Aliases do not come into play until we get to the (generated) list of modules in Python/frozen.c. (The tool for freezing modules, Programs/_freeze_module, is only concerned with the source file, not the module it will be used for.)
Knowledge of which frozen modules are aliases (and the identity of the original module) normally isn't important. However, this information is valuable when we go to set __file__ on frozen stdlib modules. This change updates Tools/scripts/freeze_modules.py to map aliases to the original module name (or None if not a stdlib module) in Python/frozen.c. We also add a helper function in Python/import.c to look up a frozen module's alias and add the result of that function to the frozen info returned from find_frozen().
https://bugs.python.org/issue45020
Add a private C API for deadlines: add _PyDeadline_Init() and
_PyDeadline_Get() functions.
* Add _PyTime_Add() and _PyTime_Mul() functions which compute t1+t2
and t1*t2 and clamp the result on overflow.
* _PyTime_MulDiv() now uses _PyTime_Add() and _PyTime_Mul().
WaitForSingleObject() accepts timeout in milliseconds in the range
[0; 0xFFFFFFFE] (DWORD type). INFINITE value (0xFFFFFFFF) means no
timeout. 0xFFFFFFFE milliseconds is around 49.7 days.
PY_TIMEOUT_MAX is (0xFFFFFFFE * 1000) milliseconds on Windows, around
49.7 days.
Partially revert commit 37b8294d62.
PyThread_acquire_lock_timed() now clamps the timeout into the
[_PyTime_MIN; _PyTime_MAX] range (_PyTime_t type) if it is too large,
rather than calling Py_FatalError() which aborts the process.
PyThread_acquire_lock_timed() no longer uses
MICROSECONDS_TO_TIMESPEC() to compute sem_timedwait() argument, but
_PyTime_GetSystemClock() and _PyTime_AsTimespec_truncate().
Fix _thread.TIMEOUT_MAX value on Windows: the maximum timeout is
0x7FFFFFFF milliseconds (around 24.9 days), not 0xFFFFFFFF
milliseconds (around 49.7 days).
Set PY_TIMEOUT_MAX to 0x7FFFFFFF milliseconds, rather than 0xFFFFFFFF
milliseconds.
Fix PY_TIMEOUT_MAX overflow test: replace (us >= PY_TIMEOUT_MAX) with
(us > PY_TIMEOUT_MAX).
Add pytime_add() and pytime_mul() functions to pytime.c to compute
t+t2 and t*k with clamping to [_PyTime_MIN; _PyTime_MAX].
Fix pytime.h: _PyTime_FromTimeval() is not implemented on Windows.
Add the _PyTime_AsTimespec_clamp() function: similar to
_PyTime_AsTimespec(), but clamp to _PyTime_t min/max and don't raise
an exception.
PyThread_acquire_lock_timed() now uses _PyTime_AsTimespec_clamp() to
remove the Py_UNREACHABLE() code path.
* Add _PyTime_AsTime_t() function.
* Add PY_TIME_T_MIN and PY_TIME_T_MAX constants.
* Replace _PyTime_AsTimeval_noraise() with _PyTime_AsTimeval_clamp().
* Add pytime_divide_round_up() function.
* Fix integer overflow in pytime_divide().
* Add pytime_divmod() function.
During runtime startup we figure out the stdlib dir but currently throw that information away. This change preserves it and exposes it via PyConfig.stdlib_dir, _Py_GetStdlibDir(), and sys._stdlib_dir.
https://bugs.python.org/issue45211
This accomplishes 2 things:
* consolidates some common code between getpath.c and getpathp.c
* makes the helpers available to code in other files
FWIW, the signature of the join_relfile() function (in fileutils.c) intentionally mirrors that of Windows' PathCchCombineEx().
Note that this change is mostly moving code around. No behavior is meant to change.
https://bugs.python.org/issue45211
On Windows, time.sleep() now uses a waitable timer which has a
resolution of 100 ns (10^-7 sec). Previously, it had a solution of 1
ms (10^-3 sec).
* On Windows, time.sleep() now calls PyErr_CheckSignals() before
resetting the SIGINT event.
* Add _PyTime_As100Nanoseconds() function.
* Complete and update time.sleep() documentation.
Co-authored-by: Livius <egyszeregy@freemail.hu>
Add the Py_ALWAYS_INLINE macro to ask the compiler to always inline a
static inline function. The compiler can ignore it and decides to not
inline the function.
Refactor pytime.c:
* Add pytime_from_nanoseconds() and pytime_as_nanoseconds(),
and use explicitly these functions
* Add two empty lines between functions
* PEP 7: add braces { ... }
* C99: declare variables where they are set
* Rename private functions to lowercase
* Rename error_time_t_overflow() to pytime_time_t_overflow()
* Rename win_perf_counter_frequency() to py_win_perf_counter_frequency()
* py_get_monotonic_clock(): add an assertion to detect overflow when
mach_absolute_time() unsigned uint64_t is casted to _PyTime_t
(signed int64_t).
_testcapi: use _PyTime_FromNanoseconds().
Currently we freeze several modules into the runtime. For each of these modules it is essential to bootstrapping the runtime that they be frozen. Any other stdlib module that we later freeze into the runtime is not essential. We can just as well import from the .py file. This PR lets users explicitly choose which should be used, with the new "-X frozen_modules=[on|off]" CLI flag. The default is "off" for now.
https://bugs.python.org/issue45020
Convert the Py_TYPE() and Py_SIZE() macros to static inline
functions. The Py_SET_TYPE() and Py_SET_SIZE() functions must now be
used to set an object type and size.
Fix PyAiter_Check to only check for the `__anext__` presense (not for
`__aiter__`). Rename `PyAiter_Check()` to `PyAIter_Check()`,
`PyObject_GetAiter()` -> `PyObject_GetAIter()`.
Co-authored-by: Pablo Galindo Salgado <Pablogsal@gmail.com>
Places the locals between the specials and stack. This is the more "natural" layout for a C struct, makes the code simpler and gives a slight speedup (~1%)
* Generalize cache names for LOAD_ATTR to allow store and delete specializations.
* Factor out specialization of attribute dictionary access.
* Specialize STORE_ATTR.
* Convert "specials" array to InterpreterFrame struct, adding f_lasti, f_state and other non-debug FrameObject fields to it.
* Refactor, calls pushing the call to the interpreter upward toward _PyEval_Vector.
* Compute f_back when on thread stack, only filling in value when frame object outlives stack invocation.
* Move ownership of InterpreterFrame in generator from frame object to generator object.
* Do not create frame objects for Python calls.
* Do not create frame objects for generators.
* Remove code that checks Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
The field is always present in the type struct, as explained
in the added comment.
* Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_AM_SEND
The flag is not needed, and since it was added in 3.10 it can be removed now.