The Gdb prettyprint plugin depended on the dummy object being displayable.
Other solutions besides a unicode object are possible. For now, get it
back up and running.
The identity checks in lookkey() need to be there to prevent the dummy
object from leaking through Py_RichCompareBool() into user code in the
rare circumstance where the dummy's hash value exactly matches the hash
value of the actual key being looked up.
Remove an unused early-out test from the critical path for
dict and set lookups.
When the strings already have matching lengths, kinds, and hashes,
there is no additional information gained by checking the first
characters (the probability of a mismatch is already known to
be less than 1 in 2**64).
Letting the compiler decide how to optimize the multiply by five
gives it the freedom to make better choices for the best technique
for a given target machine.
For example, GCC on x86_64 produces a little bit better code:
Old-way (3 steps with a data dependency between each step):
shrq $5, %r13
leaq 1(%rbx,%r13), %rax
leaq (%rax,%rbx,4), %rbx
New-way (3 steps with no dependency between the first two steps
which can be run in parallel):
leaq (%rbx,%rbx,4), %rax # i*5
shrq $5, %r13 # perturb >>= PERTURB_SHIFT
leaq 1(%r13,%rax), %rbx # 1 + perturb + i*5
- replace 'long int' / 'long' by 'int'
- fix capitalization of "Python" in PyLong_AsUnsignedLong
- "is too large" -> "too large", for consistency with other messages.
PyStructSequence_InitType() except that it has a return value (0 on success,
-1 on error).
* PyStructSequence_InitType2() now raises MemoryError on memory allocation failure
* Fix also some calls to PyDict_SetItemString(): handle error
assertion error if they are called with an exception set (PyErr_Occurred()).
As PyEval_EvalFrameEx(), they may clear the current exception and so the caller
looses its exception.
_PyDict_GetItemId() is more efficient: it only builds the Unicode string once.
Identifiers (dictionary keys) are now created at Python initialization, and if
the creation failed, Python does exit with a fatal error.
Before, PyDict_GetItemString() failure was not handled: structseq_new() could
call PyObject_GC_NewVar() with a negative size, and structseq_dealloc() could
also crash.
It was easy to miss the call to type->tp_init because it was done in a long
conditional expression. Split the long expression in multiple lines to make the
debug step by step easier.
Antoine Pitrou
Raymond Hettinger
Tim Peters
Serhiy Storchaka
Mark Dickinson
Victor Stinner
Christian Heimes
Victor Stinner