From 89350a41b969b1fb20d0e24db28a20491e448860 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil Schemenauer <nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 17:52:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove _Py_ResetReferences.  Fixes bug #529750 "Circular
 reference makes Py_Init crash".  refchain cannot be cleared because objects
 can live across Py_Finalize() and Py_Initialize() if they are kept alive by
 circular references.

---
 Include/object.h   | 1 -
 Objects/object.c   | 7 -------
 Python/pythonrun.c | 4 ----
 3 files changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Include/object.h b/Include/object.h
index d045be16a0c..5e509b41a0f 100644
--- a/Include/object.h
+++ b/Include/object.h
@@ -559,7 +559,6 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_NewReference(PyObject *);
 PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_ForgetReference(PyObject *);
 PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_Dealloc(PyObject *);
 PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_PrintReferences(FILE *);
-PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_ResetReferences(void);
 
 #else
 /* Without Py_TRACE_REFS, there's little enough to do that we expand code
diff --git a/Objects/object.c b/Objects/object.c
index 20a6a936c1c..33286435e90 100644
--- a/Objects/object.c
+++ b/Objects/object.c
@@ -1908,13 +1908,6 @@ _Py_ReadyTypes(void)
 
 static PyObject refchain = {&refchain, &refchain};
 
-void
-_Py_ResetReferences(void)
-{
-	refchain._ob_prev = refchain._ob_next = &refchain;
-	_Py_RefTotal = 0;
-}
-
 void
 _Py_NewReference(PyObject *op)
 {
diff --git a/Python/pythonrun.c b/Python/pythonrun.c
index b85c390a770..c2508fa579d 100644
--- a/Python/pythonrun.c
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c
@@ -277,10 +277,6 @@ Py_Finalize(void)
 #endif
 
 	call_ll_exitfuncs();
-
-#ifdef Py_TRACE_REFS
-	_Py_ResetReferences();
-#endif /* Py_TRACE_REFS */
 }
 
 /* Create and initialize a new interpreter and thread, and return the