visit_finalizer_reachable since it's the same as visit_reachable.
Rename visit_reachable to visit_move. Objects can now have the GC type
flag set, reachable by tp_traverse and not be in a GC linked list. This
should make the collector more robust and easier to use by extension
module writers. Add memory management functions for container objects
(new, del, resize).
the old flag to still compile. Remove the PyType_BASICSIZE and
PyType_SET_BASICSIZE macros. Add PyObject_GC_New, PyObject_GC_NewVar,
PyObject_GC_Resize, PyObject_GC_Del, PyObject_GC_Track,
PyObject_GC_UnTrack. Part of SF patch #421893.
try/except or try/finally.
Previous versions had only track SETUP_LOOP blocks and ignored the
exception part. This meant that it allowed continue inside a
try/except but generated buggy code. Now it does the right thing.
pyport.h: typedef a new Py_intptr_t type.
DELICATE ASSUMPTION: That HAVE_UINTPTR_T implies intptr_t is
available as well as uintptr_t. If that turns out not to be
true, things must get uglier (C99 wants both, so I think it's
an assumption we're *likely* to get away with).
thread_nt.h, PyThread_start_new_thread: MS _beginthread is documented
as returning unsigned long; no idea why uintptr_t was being used.
Others: Always use Py_[u]intptr_t, never [u]intptr_t directly.
As the doc string for _lookupName() explains:
This routine uses a list instead of a dictionary, because a
dictionary can't store two different keys if the keys have the
same value but different types, e.g. 2 and 2L. The compiler
must treat these two separately, so it does an explicit type
comparison before comparing the values.
Avoid if/elif/elif/else tests where the final else is supposed to
handle exactly one case instead of all other cases. When the list of
operators is extended, the catchall else treats all new operators as
the last operator in the set of tests. Instead, raise an exception if
an unexpected operator occurs.
Use a dictionary instead of a list to map objects to their offsets in
a const/name tuple of a code object.
XXX The conversion is perhaps incomplete, in that we shouldn't have to
do the list2dict to start.
Add support for floor division (// and //=)
The implementation of getChildren() and getChildNodes() is intended to
be faster, because it avoids calling flatten() on every return value.
But it's not clear that it is a lot faster, because constructing a
tuple with just the right values ends up being slow. (Too many
attribute lookups probably.)
The ast.txt file is much more complicated, with funny characters at
the ends of names (*, &, !) to indicate the types of each child node.
The astgen script is also much more complex, making me wonder if it's
still useful.
Guido van Rossum
Tim Peters
Neil Schemenauer
Jeremy Hylton
Jack Jansen
Fred Drake
Barry Warsaw