On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Gabriele <phoenix1987@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 23:12, Nathaniel Smith <njs@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/4b430e5f6954ef4b248e95bfb4087635dcdef... And PyInterpreterState_Head is just _PyRuntime.interpreters.head. So maybe this is already done... -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org