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authorVictor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>2021-04-29 11:06:59 (GMT)
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bpo-43774: Enhance debug build documentation (GH-25712)
* Add also references to --with-trace-refs option. * Move _ob_next and _ob_prev at the end, since they don't exist by default and are related to debug.
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@@ -215,8 +215,8 @@ Release builds and :ref:`debug builds <debug-build>` are now ABI compatible: def
``Py_DEBUG`` macro no longer implies the ``Py_TRACE_REFS`` macro, which
introduces the only ABI incompatibility. The ``Py_TRACE_REFS`` macro, which
adds the :func:`sys.getobjects` function and the :envvar:`PYTHONDUMPREFS`
-environment variable, can be set using the new ``./configure --with-trace-refs``
-build option.
+environment variable, can be set using the new :option:`./configure
+--with-trace-refs <--with-trace-refs>` build option.
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`36465`.)
On Unix, C extensions are no longer linked to libpython except on Android