From: Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:18:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: SF bug #583894, add doc for DL_IMPORT/DL_EXPORT deprecation
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~4899
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bba23a897ef73e8f68e5ccd4485e813dca6e99b8;p=python

SF bug #583894, add doc for DL_IMPORT/DL_EXPORT deprecation
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
index 5ba86d87cb..bcac4dd38d 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
@@ -845,6 +845,11 @@ Changes to Python's build process, and to the C API, include:
 when running Python's \file{configure} script.  (Contributed by Ondrej
 Palkovsky.)
 
+\item The public Python C API will generally be declared using PyAPI_FUNC
+and PyAPI_DATA macros, while Python extension module init functions
+will be declared with PyMODINIT_FUNC.  DL_EXPORT/DL_IMPORT macros
+are deprecated.
+
 \item The interpreter can be compiled without any docstrings for 
 the built-in functions and modules by supplying
 \longprogramopt{without-doc-strings} to the \file{configure} script.