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authorBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>2017-09-15 01:13:16 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-09-15 01:13:16 (GMT)
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bpo-31338 (#3374)
* Add Py_UNREACHABLE() as an alias to abort(). * Use Py_UNREACHABLE() instead of assert(0) * Convert more unreachable code to use Py_UNREACHABLE() * Document Py_UNREACHABLE() and a few other macros.
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+Added the ``Py_UNREACHABLE()`` macro for code paths which are never expected
+to be reached. This and a few other useful macros are now documented in the
+C API manual.