Ah ok, this might be related to Victor's observation based on the latest sources. I haven't tested 3.7 yet, but if _PyRuntime is available from dynsym then this is already enough.
Thanks, Gabriele On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 at 11:00, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Gabriele <phoenix1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 23:12, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> What information do you wish the interpreter provided, that would make > >> your program simpler and more reliable? > > > > An exported global variable that points to the head of the > > PyInterpreterState linked list (i.e. the return value of > > PyInterpreterState_Head). This way my program could just look this up > > from the dynsym section instead of scanning a dump of the bss section > > in memory to find a possible candidate. > > Hmm, it looks like in 3.7+, _PyRuntime is marked PyAPI_DATA, which I > think should make it exported from dynsym? > > https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/4b430e5f6954ef4b248e95bfb4087635dcdefc6d/Include/internal/pystate.h#L206 > > And PyInterpreterState_Head is just _PyRuntime.interpreters.head. So > maybe this is already done... > > -n > > -- > Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org -- "Egli è scritto in lingua matematica, e i caratteri son triangoli, cerchi, ed altre figure geometriche, senza i quali mezzi è impossibile a intenderne umanamente parola; senza questi è un aggirarsi vanamente per un oscuro laberinto." -- G. Galilei, Il saggiatore. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
