From: Georg Brandl Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:05:24 +0000 (+0000) Subject: #1533486: fix types in refcount intro. X-Git-Tag: v2.6a2~354 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=372d55e3e6fb163f7561403b312d9104a7f9238a;p=python #1533486: fix types in refcount intro. --- diff --git a/Doc/c-api/intro.rst b/Doc/c-api/intro.rst index 5e9f525455..9befaf7a73 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/intro.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/intro.rst @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ reference counts for other objects contained in the object if this is a compound object type, such as a list, as well as performing any additional finalization that's needed. There's no chance that the reference count can overflow; at least as many bits are used to hold the reference count as there are distinct -memory locations in virtual memory (assuming ``sizeof(long) >= sizeof(char*)``). +memory locations in virtual memory (assuming ``sizeof(Py_ssize_t) >= sizeof(void*)``). Thus, the reference count increment is a simple operation. It is not necessary to increment an object's reference count for every local