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On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 3:10 AM GAUDRY Eloi <eloi.gau...@fft.be> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I would like to be able to get an handle on PyGC_Head*_PyGC_generation0
> from a CPython extension.
> This is possible when building Python on a Posix host, but not on Windows
> because of a missing PyAPI_DATA wrapping of the said object in the
> objimpl.h header.
>
> Having the possibility to inspect the PyGC_Head here can be very useful
> when customizing the way a garbage-collectable object created from CPython
> extension would be cleaned/inspected, etc.
>
> Any chance this patch could be added to get the same capabilities on
> Windows and Posix platforms ?
>
> Thanks for your feedback,
> Eloi
>
>
>
> Index: Include/objimpl.h
> ===================================================================
> --- Include/objimpl.h (revision 118072)
> +++ Include/objimpl.h (working copy)
> @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
>      double dummy;  /* force worst-case alignment */
>  } PyGC_Head;
>
> -extern PyGC_Head *_PyGC_generation0;
> +PyAPI_DATA(PyGC_Head*) _PyGC_generation0;
>
>  #define _Py_AS_GC(o) ((PyGC_Head *)(o)-1)
>
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