New submission from Larry Hastings:
I noticed this code in Objects/object.c today:
/* Hack to force loading of pycapsule.o */
PyTypeObject *_PyCapsule_hack = &PyCapsule_Type;
What is this doing? Note that PyCapsule_Type is referred to inside
_Py_ReadyTypes(), so there's already a reference to it from this module. This
global seems redundant.
Attached is a patch that removes it. Trunk compiles and all tests pass with it
applied, though I only tried on 64-bit Linux so I concede if this is handling
some obscure edge case I probably wouldn't have hit it.
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files: larry.remove.no.capsule.hack.1.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 216766
nosy: larry
priority: low
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Remove "capsule hack" from object.c?
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34958/larry.remove.no.capsule.hack.1.diff
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