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Author	vstinner
Recipients	belopolsky, gvanrossum, python-dev, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, skrah, vstinner
Date	2016-08-17.11:30:17
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Message-id	<1471433418.1.0.210774138923.issue26200@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Also, putting a function call inside a macro is a worrisome practice in C. I conccur with Raymond: it can be very painful if you get a segfault on such line. What is crashing? The function call? DECREF? INCREF? something else? It's also more painful to debug such code in gdb step by step. I dislike py_setref_extra.patch. I prefer more verbose C code, easy to debug.

> Also, putting a function call inside a macro is a worrisome practice in C. 

I conccur with Raymond: it can be very painful if you get a segfault on such line. What is crashing? The function call? DECREF? INCREF? something else?

It's also more painful to debug such code in gdb step by step.

I dislike py_setref_extra.patch. I prefer more verbose C code, easy to debug.

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