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| author | Paul Ganssle <pganssle@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-04-27 18:14:35 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com> | 2019-04-27 18:14:35 (GMT) |
| commit | 5c403b203510549a3f89d138d3265c5cc0cc12af (patch) | |
| tree | 34b0c18f6a695abfb9581279946ae066ed298500 /Doc | |
| parent | 55d035113dfb1bd90495c8571758f504ae8d4802 (diff) | |
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bpo-36722: Style and grammar edits for ABI news entries (GH-12979)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index 4446250..8d94a9f 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -101,20 +101,21 @@ subdirectories). Debug build uses the same ABI as release build ----------------------------------------------- -Python now uses the same ABI when built in release and in debug mode. On Unix, -when Python is build in debug mode, it is now possible to load C extensions -built in release mode and C extensions built using the stable ABI. - -Release build and debug build are now ABI compatible: the ``Py_DEBUG`` define -no longer implies the ``Py_TRACE_REFS`` define which introduces the only ABI -incompatibility. A new ``./configure --with-trace-refs`` build option is now -required to get ``Py_TRACE_REFS`` define which adds :func:`sys.getobjects` -function and :envvar:`PYTHONDUMPREFS` environment variable. +Python now uses the same ABI whether it built in release or debug mode. On +Unix, when Python is built in debug mode, it is now possible to load C +extensions built in release mode and C extensions built using the stable ABI. + +Release builds and debug builds are now ABI compatible: defining the +``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. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`36465`.) -On Unix, C extensions are no longer linked to libpython. It is now possible to -load a C extension built using a shared library Python -with a statically linked Python. +On Unix, C extensions are no longer linked to libpython. It is now possible +for a statically linked Python to load a C extension built using a shared +library Python. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`21536`.) On Unix, when Python is built in debug mode, import now also looks for C |