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authorVictor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>2021-03-24 01:23:01 (GMT)
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bpo-43244: Remove the pyarena.h header (GH-25007)
Remove the pyarena.h header file with functions: * PyArena_New() * PyArena_Free() * PyArena_Malloc() * PyArena_AddPyObject() These functions were undocumented, excluded from the limited C API, and were only used internally by the compiler. Add pycore_pyarena.h header. Rename functions: * PyArena_New() => _PyArena_New() * PyArena_Free() => _PyArena_Free() * PyArena_Malloc() => _PyArena_Malloc() * PyArena_AddPyObject() => _PyArena_AddPyObject()
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+/* An arena-like memory interface for the compiler.
+ */
+
+#ifndef Py_INTERNAL_PYARENA_H
+#define Py_INTERNAL_PYARENA_H
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+#ifndef Py_BUILD_CORE
+# error "this header requires Py_BUILD_CORE define"
+#endif
+
+typedef struct _arena PyArena;
+
+/* _PyArena_New() and _PyArena_Free() create a new arena and free it,
+ respectively. Once an arena has been created, it can be used
+ to allocate memory via _PyArena_Malloc(). Pointers to PyObject can
+ also be registered with the arena via _PyArena_AddPyObject(), and the
+ arena will ensure that the PyObjects stay alive at least until
+ _PyArena_Free() is called. When an arena is freed, all the memory it
+ allocated is freed, the arena releases internal references to registered
+ PyObject*, and none of its pointers are valid.
+ XXX (tim) What does "none of its pointers are valid" mean? Does it
+ XXX mean that pointers previously obtained via _PyArena_Malloc() are
+ XXX no longer valid? (That's clearly true, but not sure that's what
+ XXX the text is trying to say.)
+
+ _PyArena_New() returns an arena pointer. On error, it
+ returns a negative number and sets an exception.
+ XXX (tim): Not true. On error, _PyArena_New() actually returns NULL,
+ XXX and looks like it may or may not set an exception (e.g., if the
+ XXX internal PyList_New(0) returns NULL, _PyArena_New() passes that on
+ XXX and an exception is set; OTOH, if the internal
+ XXX block_new(DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE) returns NULL, that's passed on but
+ XXX an exception is not set in that case).
+*/
+PyAPI_FUNC(PyArena*) _PyArena_New(void);
+PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyArena_Free(PyArena *);
+
+/* Mostly like malloc(), return the address of a block of memory spanning
+ * `size` bytes, or return NULL (without setting an exception) if enough
+ * new memory can't be obtained. Unlike malloc(0), _PyArena_Malloc() with
+ * size=0 does not guarantee to return a unique pointer (the pointer
+ * returned may equal one or more other pointers obtained from
+ * _PyArena_Malloc()).
+ * Note that pointers obtained via _PyArena_Malloc() must never be passed to
+ * the system free() or realloc(), or to any of Python's similar memory-
+ * management functions. _PyArena_Malloc()-obtained pointers remain valid
+ * until _PyArena_Free(ar) is called, at which point all pointers obtained
+ * from the arena `ar` become invalid simultaneously.
+ */
+PyAPI_FUNC(void*) _PyArena_Malloc(PyArena *, size_t size);
+
+/* This routine isn't a proper arena allocation routine. It takes
+ * a PyObject* and records it so that it can be DECREFed when the
+ * arena is freed.
+ */
+PyAPI_FUNC(int) _PyArena_AddPyObject(PyArena *, PyObject *);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+#endif /* !Py_INTERNAL_PYARENA_H */