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Author pitrou
Recipients kristjan.jonsson, pitrou
Date 2012-03-29.17:09:54
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> Yes, it is supposed to, but no one is actually looking at that value.
> It was used in debugging information during PyFloat_Fini() which is no
> longer relevant if this block information is removed.

Still, let's honour the API rather than break it.

> Here's a thought:  I think using the linked list approach using
> Py_TYPE() is rather neat.  Other freelists are mostly implemented
> using static arrays of pointers.  Any thoughts on this?  We could
> unify the approach taken.

I don't have any preference either way, but I see little point in
unifying the approach, since no common code is shared.
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2012-03-29 17:09:55pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, kristjan.jonsson
2012-03-29 17:09:54pitroulinkissue14435 messages
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