From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:02:22 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: whatsnew: PyStructSequence_InitType2, Victor's MemoryError fixes.
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~233^2~241
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=237fda2984f1e5032936895ad95089abc4a88473;p=python
whatsnew: PyStructSequence_InitType2, Victor's MemoryError fixes.
I'm documenting this new function, but I'm wondering if this will trigger
someone to think about whether or not this actually makes sense :)
---
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/tuple.rst b/Doc/c-api/tuple.rst
index 184affb222..08767393bc 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/tuple.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/tuple.rst
@@ -129,6 +129,14 @@ type.
Initializes a struct sequence type *type* from *desc* in place.
+.. c:function:: void PyStructSequence_InitType2(PyTypeObject *type, PyStructSequence_Desc *desc)
+
+ The same as ``PyStructSequence_InitType``, but returns ``0`` on success and ``-1`` on
+ failure.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 3.4
+
+
.. c:type:: PyStructSequence_Desc
Contains the meta information of a struct sequence type to create.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index d3248795ac..bbeddddcbe 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1421,6 +1421,10 @@ Other Build and C API Changes
specifications for ``%s``, ``%A``, ``%U``, ``%V``, ``%S``, and ``%R``.
(Contributed by Ysj Ray and Victor Stinner in :issue:`7330`.)
+* New function :c:func:`PyStructSequence_InitType2` supplements the
+ existing :c:func:`PyStructSequence_InitType` function. The difference
+ is that it returns ``0`` on success and ``-1`` on failure.
+
.. _other-improvements-3.4:
@@ -1466,6 +1470,10 @@ Other Improvements
uses of :ref:`__prepare__ <prepare>`. (Contributed by Benjamin Peterson in
:issue:`17853`.)
+* A number of MemoryError-related crashes were identified and fixed by Victor
+ Stinner using his :pep:`445`-based ``pyfailmalloc`` tool (:issue:`18408`,
+ :issue:`18520`).
+
Significant Optimizations
-------------------------