From: R David Murray 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__ `. (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 -------------------------