Revise the interface to the profiling and tracing support for the

Python interpreter.

This change adds two new C-level APIs:  PyEval_SetProfile() and
PyEval_SetTrace().  These can be used to install profile and trace
functions implemented in C, which can operate at much higher speeds
than Python-based functions.  The overhead for calling a C-based
profile function is a very small fraction of a percent of the overhead
involved in calling a Python-based function.

The machinery required to call a Python-based profile or trace
function been moved to sysmodule.c, where sys.setprofile() and
sys.setprofile() simply become users of the new interface.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Include/pystate.h b/Include/pystate.h
index 27ffe32..d5e2e1f 100644
--- a/Include/pystate.h
+++ b/Include/pystate.h
@@ -31,6 +31,15 @@ typedef struct _is {
 
 struct _frame; /* Avoid including frameobject.h */
 
+/* Py_tracefunc return -1 when raising an exception, or 0 for success. */
+typedef int (*Py_tracefunc)(PyObject *, struct _frame *, int, PyObject *);
+
+/* The following values are used for 'what' for tracefunc functions: */
+#define PyTrace_CALL 0
+#define PyTrace_EXCEPTION 1
+#define PyTrace_LINE 2
+#define PyTrace_RETURN 3
+
 typedef struct _ts {
 
     struct _ts *next;
@@ -41,8 +50,10 @@ typedef struct _ts {
     int ticker;
     int tracing;
 
-    PyObject *sys_profilefunc;
-    PyObject *sys_tracefunc;
+    Py_tracefunc c_profilefunc;
+    Py_tracefunc c_tracefunc;
+    PyObject *c_profileobj;
+    PyObject *c_traceobj;
 
     PyObject *curexc_type;
     PyObject *curexc_value;