Add Garbage Collection support to new-style classes (not yet to their

instances).

Also added GC support to various auxiliary types: super, property,
descriptors, wrappers, dictproxy.  (Only type objects have a tp_clear
field; the other types are.)

One change was necessary to the GC infrastructure.  We have statically
allocated type objects that don't have a GC header (and can't easily
be given one) and heap-allocated type objects that do have a GC
header.  Giving these different metatypes would be really ugly: I
tried, and I had to modify pickle.py, cPickle.c, copy.py, add a new
invent a new name for the new metatype and make it a built-in, change
affected tests...  In short, a mess.  So instead, we add a new type
slot tp_is_gc, which is a simple Boolean function that determines
whether a particular instance has GC headers or not.  This slot is
only relevant for types that have the (new) GC flag bit set.  If the
tp_is_gc slot is NULL (by far the most common case), all instances of
the type are deemed to have GC headers.  This slot is called by the
PyObject_IS_GC() macro (which is only used twice, both times in
gcmodule.c).

I also changed the extern declarations for a bunch of GC-related
functions (_PyObject_GC_Del etc.): these always exist but objimpl.h
only declared them when WITH_CYCLE_GC was defined, but I needed to be
able to reference them without #ifdefs.  (When WITH_CYCLE_GC is not
defined, they do the same as their non-GC counterparts anyway.)

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Include/object.h b/Include/object.h
index 4529b61..400e65751 100644
--- a/Include/object.h
+++ b/Include/object.h
@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ typedef struct _typeobject {
 	allocfunc tp_alloc;
 	newfunc tp_new;
 	destructor tp_free; /* Low-level free-memory routine */
+	inquiry tp_is_gc; /* For PyObject_IS_GC */
 	PyObject *tp_bases;
 	PyObject *tp_mro; /* method resolution order */
 	PyObject *tp_defined;