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| author | C.A.M. Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM> | 2022-10-17 19:16:37 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-10-17 19:16:37 (GMT) |
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gh-95914: Add What's New item describing PEP 670 changes (#98315)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst index 73e23a1..1e93fca 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst @@ -1895,6 +1895,17 @@ New Features Porting to Python 3.11 ---------------------- +* Some macros have been converted to static inline functions to avoid + `macro pitfalls <https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Macro-Pitfalls.html>`_. + The change should be mostly transparent to users, + as the replacement functions will cast their arguments to the expected types + to avoid compiler warnings due to static type checks. + However, when the limited C API is set to >=3.11, + these casts are not done, + and callers will need to cast arguments to their expected types. + See :pep:`670` for more details. + (Contributed by Victor Stinner and Erlend E. Aasland in :gh:`89653`.) + * :c:func:`PyErr_SetExcInfo()` no longer uses the ``type`` and ``traceback`` arguments, the interpreter now derives those values from the exception instance (the ``value`` argument). The function still steals references |