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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2017-03-23 13:48:39 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2017-03-23 13:48:39 (GMT)
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bpo-6532: Make the thread id an unsigned integer. (#781)
* bpo-6532: Make the thread id an unsigned integer. From C API side the type of results of PyThread_start_new_thread() and PyThread_get_thread_ident(), the id parameter of PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc(), and the thread_id field of PyThreadState changed from "long" to "unsigned long". * Restore a check in thread_get_ident().
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@@ -185,6 +185,16 @@ Deprecated
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`28692`.)
+Changes in the C API
+--------------------
+
+- The type of results of :c:func:`PyThread_start_new_thread` and
+ :c:func:`PyThread_get_thread_ident`, and the *id* parameter of
+ :c:func:`PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc` changed from :c:type:`long` to
+ :c:type:`unsigned long`.
+ (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`6532`.)
+
+
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