James Y Knight wrote: > All right, then, you could use the top bit of the ob_refcnt field. > There's no way to possibly have 2**32 objects on a 32bit system anyhow.
Of this kind, we have several spare bits: there are atleast two bits in the ob_type field, since the type pointer is atleast 4-aligned on all platforms we support. OTOH, using these bits would break existing code. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
