See PEP 539 for details.
Highlights of changes:
- Add Thread Specific Storage (TSS) API
- Document the Thread Local Storage (TLS) API as deprecated
- Update code that used TLS API to use TSS API
* bpo-30557: faulthandler now correctly filters and displays exception codes on Windows
* Adds test for non-fatal exceptions.
* Adds bpo number to comment.
* bpo-30125: Cleanup faulthandler.c
* Use size_t type for iterators
* Add { ... }
* bpo-30125: Fix faulthandler.disable() on Windows
On Windows, faulthandler.disable() now removes the exception handler
installed by faulthandler.enable().
* bpo-6532: Make the thread id an unsigned integer.
From C API side the type of results of PyThread_start_new_thread() and
PyThread_get_thread_ident(), the id parameter of
PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc(), and the thread_id field of PyThreadState
changed from "long" to "unsigned long".
* Restore a check in thread_get_ident().
Issue #23848, #26622:
* faulthandler now only logs fatal Windows exceptions.
* write error code as decimal, not as hexadecimal
* replace "Windows exception" with "Windows fatal exception"
Issue #23848: On Windows, faulthandler.enable() now also installs an exception
handler to dump the traceback of all Python threads on any Windows exception,
not only on UNIX signals (SIGSEGV, SIGFPE, SIGABRT).
Issue #26563:
* Add _PyGILState_GetInterpreterStateUnsafe() function: the single
PyInterpreterState used by this process' GILState implementation.
* Enhance _Py_DumpTracebackThreads() to retrieve the interpreter state from
autoInterpreterState in last resort. The function now accepts NULL for interp
and current_tstate parameters.
* test_faulthandler: fix a ResourceWarning when test is interrupted by CTRL+c
Issue #26154: Add a new private _PyThreadState_UncheckedGet() function which
gets the current thread state, but don't call Py_FatalError() if it is NULL.
Python 3.5.1 removed the _PyThreadState_Current symbol from the Python C API to
no more expose complex and private atomic types. Atomic types depends on the
compiler or can even depend on compiler options. The new function
_PyThreadState_UncheckedGet() allows to get the variable value without having
to care of the exact implementation of atomic types.
Changes:
* Replace direct usage of the _PyThreadState_Current variable with a call to
_PyThreadState_UncheckedGet().
* In pystate.c, replace direct usage of the _PyThreadState_Current variable
with the PyThreadState_GET() macro for readability.
* Document also PyThreadState_Get() in pystate.h
to its signal handlers.
Use also _Py_write_noraise() instead of write() to retry write() if it is
interrupted by a signal (fail with EINTR).
faulthandler.dump_traceback() also calls PyErr_CheckSignals() to call the
Python signal handler if a signal was received.
Issue #23654: Turn off ICC's tail call optimization for the stack_overflow
generator. ICC turns the recursive tail call into a loop.
Patch written by Matt Frank.
_read_null(), because _read_null() cannot be used on AIX. On AIX, reading from
NULL is allowed: the first page of memory is a mapped read-only on AIX.
_read_null() and _sigabrt() don't accept parameters.
- Use _testcapi.raise_signal() in test_signal
- close also os.pipe() file descriptors in some test_signal tests where they
were not closed properly
- Remove faulthandler._sigill() and faulthandler._sigbus(): reuse
_testcapi.raise_signal() in test_faulthandler
instead of creating temporary Unicode string objects
Add also more identifiers in pythonrun.c to avoid temporary Unicode string
objets for the interactive interpreter.
Victor Stinner
Masayuki Yamamoto
Antoine Pitrou
Steve Dower
Christophe Zeitouny
Serhiy Storchaka
Benjamin Peterson
doko@ubuntu.com
R David Murray
Jesus Cea