The staticforward define was needed to support certain broken C
compilers (notably SCO ODT 3.0, perhaps early AIX as well) botched the
static keyword when it was used with a forward declaration of a static
initialized structure. Standard C allows the forward declaration with
static, and we've decided to stop catering to broken C compilers. (In
fact, we expect that the compilers are all fixed eight years later.)
I'm leaving staticforward and statichere defined in object.h as
static. This is only for backwards compatibility with C extensions
that might still use it.
XXX I haven't updated the documentation.
don't understand how this function works, also beefed up the docs. The
most common usage error is of this form (often spread out across gotos):
if (_PyString_Resize(&s, n) < 0) {
Py_DECREF(s);
s = NULL;
goto outtahere;
}
The error is that if _PyString_Resize runs out of memory, it automatically
decrefs the input string object s (which also deallocates it, since its
refcount must be 1 upon entry), and sets s to NULL. So if the "if"
branch ever triggers, it's an error to call Py_DECREF(s): s is already
NULL! A correct way to write the above is the simpler (and intended)
if (_PyString_Resize(&s, n) < 0)
goto outtahere;
Bugfix candidate.
type.__module__ behavior.
This adds the module name and a dot in front of the type name in every
type object initializer, except for built-in types (and those that
already had this). Note that it touches lots of Mac modules -- I have
no way to test these but the changes look right. Apologies if they're
not. This also touches the weakref docs, which contains a sample type
object initializer. It also touches the mmap test output, because the
mmap type's repr is included in that output. It touches object.h to
put the correct description in a comment.
The OSS Programmer's Reference (www.4front-tech.com)
states:
*Setting Sampling Parameters
There are three parameters which affect the sound
quality (and therefore memory and bandwidth
requirements) of sampled audio data. These are:
** sample format (sometimes called number of bits)
** number of channels (mono or stereo), and
** sampling rate (speed)
NOTE:
It is important to always set these parameters in the
above order. Setting sampling rate before the number
of channels doesn't work with all devices.
handling of EAGAIN.
This may or may not fix the problem for me (Mandrake 7.2 on a Dell
Optiplex GX110 desktop): I can't hear the output, but it does pass the
test now. It doesn't fix the problem for Fred (Mandrake 7.2 on a Dell
Inspiron 7500 which has the Maestro sound drivers). Fred suspects
that it's the kernel version in combination with the driver.
read the header from the .au file and do a sanity check
pass only the data to the audio device
call flush() so that program does not exit until playback is complete
call all the other methods to verify that they work minimally
call setparameters with a bunch of bugs arguments
linuxaudiodev.c:
use explicit O_WRONLY and O_RDONLY instead of 1 and 0
add a string name to each of the entries in audio_types[]
add AFMT_A_LAW to the list of known formats
add x_mode attribute to lad object, stores imode from open call
test ioctl return value as == -1, not < 0
in read() method, resize string before return
add getptr() method, that calls does ioctl on GETIPTR or GETOPTR
depending on x_mode
in setparameters() method, do better error checking and raise
ValueErrors; also use ioctl calls recommended by Open Sound
System Programmer's Guido (www.opensound.com)
use PyModule_AddXXX to define names in module
Py_FatalError() from module initialization functions. The importing
mechanism already checks for PyErr_Occurred() after module importation
and it Does The Right Thing.
Unfortunately, the following either were not compiled or tested by the
regression suite, due to issues with my development platform:
almodule.c
cdmodule.c
mpzmodule.c
puremodule.c
timingmodule.c
Linux. Perhaps winaudio would be better, as it would offend both
parties equally.
tg@freebsd.org: allow this module to compile under FreeBSD
(he suggests voxwareaudio)
and a couple of functions that were missed in the previous batches. Not
terribly tested, but very carefully scrutinized, three times.
All these were found by the little findkrc.py that I posted to python-dev,
which means there might be more lurking. Cases such as this:
long
func(a, b)
long a;
long b; /* flagword */
{
and other cases where the last ; in the argument list isn't followed by a
newline and an opening curly bracket. Regexps to catch all are welcome, of
course ;)
For more comments, read the patches@python.org archives.
For documentation read the comments in mymalloc.h and objimpl.h.
(This is not exactly what Vladimir posted to the patches list; I've
made a few changes, and Vladimir sent me a fix in private email for a
problem that only occurs in debug mode. I'm also holding back on his
change to main.c, which seems unnecessary to me.)
Jeremy Hylton
Tim Peters
Martin v. Löwis
Guido van Rossum
Ka-Ping Yee
Barry Warsaw
Thomas Wouters
Fred Drake