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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2006-01-20 09:34:29 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2006-01-20 09:34:29 (GMT) |
| commit | 8cb307728eb8e7a9712500e350cd10b1f68256c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 932c66656e79a25f081f91c3269b393c25cb1ead /Doc/lib | |
| parent | a3a93ae7c82542644c558a42141651cd74bfd81f (diff) | |
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Bug #1402224: Add warning to dl docs about crashes.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libdl.tex | 4 |
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libdl.tex b/Doc/lib/libdl.tex index 358f083..3da4db2 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libdl.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libdl.tex @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ The \module{dl} module defines an interface to the \UNIX{} platforms for handling dynamically linked libraries. It allows the program to call arbitrary functions in such a library. +\warning{The \module{dl} module bypasses the Python type system and +error handling. If used incorrectly it may cause segmentation faults, +crashes or other incorrect behaviour.} + \note{This module will not work unless \code{sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) == sizeof(char *)} If this is not the case, \exception{SystemError} will be raised on |