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Gregory P. Smith e348c8d154 Using 'long double' to force this structure to be worst case aligned is no
longer required as of Python 2.5+ when the gc_refs changed from an int (4
bytes) to a Py_ssize_t (8 bytes) as the minimum size is 16 bytes.

The use of a 'long double' triggered a warning by Clang trunk's
Undefined-Behavior Sanitizer as on many platforms a long double requires
16-byte alignment but the Python memory allocator only guarantees 8 byte
alignment.

So our code would allocate and use these structures with technically improper
alignment.  Though it didn't matter since the 'dummy' field is never used.
This silences that warning.

Spelunking into code history, the double was added in 2001 to force better
alignment on some platforms and changed to a long double in 2002 to appease
Tru64.  That issue should no loner be present since the upgrade from int to
Py_ssize_t where the minimum structure size increased to 16 (unless anyone
knows of a platform where ssize_t is 4 bytes?) or 24 bytes depending on if the
build uses 4 or 8 byte pointers.

We can probably get rid of the double and this union hack all together today.
That is a slightly more invasive change that can be left for later.

A more correct non-hacky alternative if any alignment issues are still found
would be to use a compiler specific alignment declaration on the structure and
determine which value to use at configure time.
2012-12-10 18:05:05 -08:00
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abstract.h Issue #16148: Small improvements and cleanup. Added version information 2012-10-07 10:29:32 +02:00
accu.h Issue #14387 : undefine 'small' so that it doesn't clash with Windows headers. 2012-03-22 23:10:37 +00:00
asdl.h create NameConstant AST class for None, True, and False literals (closes #16619) 2012-12-06 17:41:04 -05:00
ast.h
bitset.h
bltinmodule.h
boolobject.h
bytearrayobject.h
bytes_methods.h
bytesobject.h Simplify and optimize formatlong() 2012-04-27 23:40:13 +02:00
cellobject.h
ceval.h
classobject.h
code.h
codecs.h Fix build under Windows 2011-10-15 16:38:20 +02:00
compile.h
complexobject.h Issue #14744: Use the new _PyUnicodeWriter internal API to speed up str%args and str.format(args) 2012-05-29 12:57:52 +02:00
datetime.h Issue #13727: Add 3 macros to access PyDateTime_Delta members: 2012-01-17 21:31:50 +01:00
descrobject.h Issue #13577: various kinds of descriptors now have a __qualname__ attribute. 2011-12-12 13:47:25 +01:00
dictobject.h Issue #14785: Add sys._debugmallocstats() to help debug low-level memory allocation issues 2012-06-22 14:55:41 -04:00
dtoa.h Issue #14521: Make result of float('nan') and float('-nan') more consistent across platforms. Further, don't rely on Py_HUGE_VAL for float('inf'). 2012-04-29 15:31:56 +01:00
dynamic_annotations.h Closes issue #13488: Some old preprocessors have problem with #define not in the first column 2011-11-27 05:16:22 +01:00
enumobject.h
errcode.h Issue #12705: Raise SyntaxError when compiling multiple statements as single interactive statement 2012-01-19 01:08:41 -06:00
eval.h
fileobject.h
fileutils.h Issue #14153 Create _Py_device_encoding() to prevent _io from having to import 2012-02-29 18:31:31 -05:00
floatobject.h Issue #14785: Add sys._debugmallocstats() to help debug low-level memory allocation issues 2012-06-22 14:55:41 -04:00
frameobject.h Update comment: SAVE_EXC_STATE and SWAP_EXC_STATE macroses are saave_exc_state and swap_exc_state functions now. 2012-12-05 17:59:10 +02:00
funcobject.h PEP 3155 / issue #13448: Qualified name for classes and functions. 2011-11-25 18:56:07 +01:00
genobject.h Issue #13783: the PEP 380 implementation no longer expands the public C API 2012-06-17 15:15:49 +10:00
graminit.h Implement PEP 380 - 'yield from' (closes #11682) 2012-01-13 21:43:40 +10:00
grammar.h make PyGrammar_LabelRepr return a const char * (closes #16369) 2012-10-31 13:36:13 -04:00
import.h Issue #15610: The PyImport_ImportModuleEx macro now calls 2012-08-10 18:55:08 -04:00
intrcheck.h Issue #12328: Under Windows, refactor handling of Ctrl-C events and 2011-11-21 21:26:56 +01:00
iterobject.h Rename _PyIter_GetBuiltin to _PyObject_GetBuiltin, and do not include it in the stable ABI. 2012-04-05 00:04:20 +02:00
listobject.h Issue #14785: Add sys._debugmallocstats() to help debug low-level memory allocation issues 2012-06-22 14:55:41 -04:00
longintrepr.h Issue #7652: Integrate the decimal floating point libmpdec library to speed 2012-03-21 18:25:23 +01:00
longobject.h Issue #14744: Use the new _PyUnicodeWriter internal API to speed up str%args and str.format(args) 2012-05-29 12:57:52 +02:00
marshal.h
memoryobject.h Issue #14930: Make memoryview objects weakrefable. 2012-05-28 21:35:09 +01:00
metagrammar.h
methodobject.h Issue #14785: Add sys._debugmallocstats() to help debug low-level memory allocation issues 2012-06-22 14:55:41 -04:00
modsupport.h Issue #11626: Add _SizeT functions to stable ABI. 2012-06-24 00:00:30 +02:00
moduleobject.h
namespaceobject.h Eric Snow's implementation of PEP 421. 2012-06-03 16:18:47 -04:00
node.h MERGE: Closes #15512: Correct __sizeof__ support for parser 2012-08-03 14:29:26 +02:00
object.h remove unused flag (closes #16505) 2012-11-18 20:49:39 -06:00
objimpl.h Using 'long double' to force this structure to be worst case aligned is no 2012-12-10 18:05:05 -08:00
opcode.h Implement PEP 380 - 'yield from' (closes #11682) 2012-01-13 21:43:40 +10:00
osdefs.h Merge 3.3. 2012-11-12 20:24:09 +01:00
parsetok.h
patchlevel.h Post-release update. 2012-09-29 14:21:25 +02:00
pgen.h
pgenheaders.h
py_curses.h Issue #12567: The curses module uses Unicode functions for Unicode arguments 2011-11-25 22:10:02 +01:00
pyarena.h
pyatomic.h - Issue #11147: Fix an unused argument in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER. (Fix 2011-12-05 16:45:02 -05:00
pycapsule.h
pyctype.h Try to fix linking failures under Windows 2011-10-04 14:43:47 +02:00
pydebug.h Merge 3.2: Issue #13703 plus some related test suite fixes. 2012-02-21 00:33:36 +01:00
pyerrors.h use char instead of int to please T_BOOL (closes #15597) 2012-08-08 17:22:50 -07:00
pyexpat.h Issue #14007: implement doctype() method calling in XMLParser of _elementtree. 2012-06-01 11:32:34 +03:00
pyfpe.h Remove trailing whitespace in order to silence warnings on HP-UX. 2012-08-31 17:11:39 -04:00
pygetopt.h Fix test failure in test_cmd_line by initializing the hash secret at the earliest point. 2012-02-21 19:03:47 +01:00
pymacconfig.h
pymacro.h GCC doesn't support typeof in strict ansi mode (e.g. -ansi or -std=c89) 2012-09-23 16:15:01 +02:00
pymath.h
pymem.h
pyport.h Issue 10052: merge fix from 3.2. 2012-12-02 13:21:37 +00:00
pystate.h Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates 2012-09-06 01:17:42 +02:00
pystrcmp.h
pystrtod.h
Python-ast.h create NameConstant AST class for None, True, and False literals (closes #16619) 2012-12-06 17:41:04 -05:00
Python.h Eric Snow's implementation of PEP 421. 2012-06-03 16:18:47 -04:00
pythonrun.h Issue #14928: Fix importlib bootstrap issues by using a custom executable (Modules/_freeze_importlib) to build Python/importlib.h. 2012-06-19 22:29:35 +02:00
pythread.h
pytime.h PEP 418: Rename adjusted attribute to adjustable in time.get_clock_info() result 2012-06-12 22:46:37 +02:00
rangeobject.h
setobject.h Issue #14785: Add sys._debugmallocstats() to help debug low-level memory allocation issues 2012-06-22 14:55:41 -04:00
sliceobject.h Issue #16451: Refactor to remove duplication between range and slice in slice index computations. 2012-11-17 19:18:10 +00:00
structmember.h s/tabs/spaces, and clean trailing whitespace 2012-05-23 07:09:08 +03:00
structseq.h
symtable.h Issue #5765: Merge from 3.3 2012-11-04 23:53:15 +10:00
sysmodule.h
token.h make _PyParser_TokenNames const 2012-10-24 08:21:52 -07:00
traceback.h
tupleobject.h Issue #14785: Add sys._debugmallocstats() to help debug low-level memory allocation issues 2012-06-22 14:55:41 -04:00
typeslots.h
ucnhash.h #12753: Add support for Unicode name aliases and named sequences. 2011-10-21 21:57:36 +03:00
unicodeobject.h Issue #16455: On FreeBSD and Solaris, if the locale is C, the 2012-12-04 01:34:47 +01:00
warnings.h
weakrefobject.h Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though its refcount had dropped to zero. 2012-12-08 21:15:26 +01:00