[pypy-commit] pypy py3k-memoryview: hg merge py3k

Manuel Jacob noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
Thu May 22 04:32:22 CEST 2014


Author: Manuel Jacob
Branch: py3k-memoryview
Changeset: r71666:6f35f19922e2
Date: 2014-05-22 04:29 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/6f35f19922e2/

Log:	hg merge py3k

diff too long, truncating to 2000 out of 5503 lines

diff --git a/.hgtags b/.hgtags
--- a/.hgtags
+++ b/.hgtags
@@ -6,3 +6,7 @@
 9b623bc48b5950cf07184462a0e48f2c4df0d720 pypy-2.1-beta1-arm
 9b623bc48b5950cf07184462a0e48f2c4df0d720 pypy-2.1-beta1-arm
 ab0dd631c22015ed88e583d9fdd4c43eebf0be21 pypy-2.1-beta1-arm
+20e51c4389ed4469b66bb9d6289ce0ecfc82c4b9 release-2.3.0
+20e51c4389ed4469b66bb9d6289ce0ecfc82c4b9 release-2.3.0
+0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 release-2.3.0
+394146e9bb673514c61f0150ab2013ccf78e8de7 release-2.3
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -44,31 +44,33 @@
     Alex Gaynor
     Michael Hudson
     David Schneider
+    Matti Picus
+    Brian Kearns
+    Philip Jenvey
     Holger Krekel
     Christian Tismer
     Hakan Ardo
     Benjamin Peterson
-    Matti Picus
-    Philip Jenvey
+    Manuel Jacob
     Anders Chrigstrom
-    Brian Kearns
     Eric van Riet Paap
+    Wim Lavrijsen
+    Ronan Lamy
     Richard Emslie
     Alexander Schremmer
-    Wim Lavrijsen
     Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
-    Manuel Jacob
     Lukas Diekmann
     Sven Hager
     Anders Lehmann
     Aurelien Campeas
     Niklaus Haldimann
-    Ronan Lamy
     Camillo Bruni
     Laura Creighton
     Toon Verwaest
+    Remi Meier
     Leonardo Santagada
     Seo Sanghyeon
+    Romain Guillebert
     Justin Peel
     Ronny Pfannschmidt
     David Edelsohn
@@ -80,52 +82,61 @@
     Daniel Roberts
     Niko Matsakis
     Adrien Di Mascio
+    Alexander Hesse
     Ludovic Aubry
-    Alexander Hesse
     Jacob Hallen
-    Romain Guillebert
     Jason Creighton
     Alex Martelli
     Michal Bendowski
     Jan de Mooij
+    stian
     Michael Foord
     Stephan Diehl
     Stefan Schwarzer
     Valentino Volonghi
     Tomek Meka
     Patrick Maupin
-    stian
     Bob Ippolito
     Bruno Gola
     Jean-Paul Calderone
     Timo Paulssen
+    Squeaky
     Alexandre Fayolle
     Simon Burton
     Marius Gedminas
     John Witulski
+    Konstantin Lopuhin
     Greg Price
     Dario Bertini
     Mark Pearse
     Simon Cross
-    Konstantin Lopuhin
     Andreas Stührk
     Jean-Philippe St. Pierre
     Guido van Rossum
     Pavel Vinogradov
+    Paweł Piotr Przeradowski
     Paul deGrandis
     Ilya Osadchiy
+    Tobias Oberstein
     Adrian Kuhn
     Boris Feigin
+    Stefano Rivera
     tav
+    Taavi Burns
     Georg Brandl
     Bert Freudenberg
     Stian Andreassen
-    Stefano Rivera
+    Laurence Tratt
     Wanja Saatkamp
     Gerald Klix
     Mike Blume
-    Taavi Burns
     Oscar Nierstrasz
+    Stefan H. Muller
+    Jeremy Thurgood
+    Gregor Wegberg
+    Rami Chowdhury
+    Tobias Pape
+    Edd Barrett
     David Malcolm
     Eugene Oden
     Henry Mason
@@ -135,18 +146,16 @@
     Dusty Phillips
     Lukas Renggli
     Guenter Jantzen
-    Tobias Oberstein
-    Remi Meier
     Ned Batchelder
     Amit Regmi
     Ben Young
     Nicolas Chauvat
     Andrew Durdin
+    Andrew Chambers
     Michael Schneider
     Nicholas Riley
     Jason Chu
     Igor Trindade Oliveira
-    Jeremy Thurgood
     Rocco Moretti
     Gintautas Miliauskas
     Michael Twomey
@@ -159,18 +168,19 @@
     Karl Bartel
     Brian Dorsey
     Victor Stinner
+    Andrews Medina
     Stuart Williams
     Jasper Schulz
+    Christian Hudon
     Toby Watson
     Antoine Pitrou
     Aaron Iles
     Michael Cheng
     Justas Sadzevicius
+    Mikael Schönenberg
     Gasper Zejn
     Neil Shepperd
-    Mikael Schönenberg
     Elmo Mäntynen
-    Tobias Pape
     Jonathan David Riehl
     Stanislaw Halik
     Anders Qvist
@@ -182,19 +192,18 @@
     Alexander Sedov
     Corbin Simpson
     Christopher Pope
-    Laurence Tratt
-    Guillebert Romain
+    wenzhuman
     Christian Tismer 
+    Marc Abramowitz
     Dan Stromberg
     Stefano Parmesan
-    Christian Hudon
     Alexis Daboville
     Jens-Uwe Mager
     Carl Meyer
     Karl Ramm
     Pieter Zieschang
     Gabriel
-    Paweł Piotr Przeradowski
+    Lukas Vacek
     Andrew Dalke
     Sylvain Thenault
     Nathan Taylor
@@ -205,6 +214,7 @@
     Travis Francis Athougies
     Kristjan Valur Jonsson
     Neil Blakey-Milner
+    anatoly techtonik
     Lutz Paelike
     Lucio Torre
     Lars Wassermann
@@ -218,13 +228,14 @@
     Martin Blais
     Lene Wagner
     Tomo Cocoa
-    Andrews Medina
     roberto at goyle
+    Yury V. Zaytsev
+    Anna Katrina Dominguez
     William Leslie
     Bobby Impollonia
     timo at eistee.fritz.box
     Andrew Thompson
-    Yusei Tahara
+    Ben Darnell
     Roberto De Ioris
     Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
     Godefroid Chappelle
@@ -235,27 +246,35 @@
     Anders Sigfridsson
     Yasir Suhail
     Floris Bruynooghe
+    Laurens Van Houtven
     Akira Li
     Gustavo Niemeyer
     Stephan Busemann
-    Anna Katrina Dominguez
+    Rafał Gałczyński
+    Yusei Tahara
     Christian Muirhead
     James Lan
     shoma hosaka
-    Daniel Neuhäuser
+    Daniel Neuh?user
+    Matthew Miller
     Buck Golemon
     Konrad Delong
     Dinu Gherman
     Chris Lambacher
     coolbutuseless at gmail.com
+    Rodrigo Araújo
+    w31rd0
     Jim Baker
-    Rodrigo Araújo
+    James Robert
     Armin Ronacher
     Brett Cannon
     yrttyr
+    aliceinwire
+    OlivierBlanvillain
     Zooko Wilcox-O Hearn
     Tomer Chachamu
     Christopher Groskopf
+    jiaaro
     opassembler.py
     Antony Lee
     Jim Hunziker
@@ -263,12 +282,13 @@
     Even Wiik Thomassen
     jbs
     soareschen
+    Kurt Griffiths
+    Mike Bayer
     Flavio Percoco
     Kristoffer Kleine
     yasirs
     Michael Chermside
     Anna Ravencroft
-    Andrew Chambers
     Julien Phalip
     Dan Loewenherz
 
diff --git a/lib-python/2.7/test/test_gdbm.py b/lib-python/2.7/test/test_gdbm.py
--- a/lib-python/2.7/test/test_gdbm.py
+++ b/lib-python/2.7/test/test_gdbm.py
@@ -74,6 +74,29 @@
         size2 = os.path.getsize(filename)
         self.assertTrue(size1 > size2 >= size0)
 
+    def test_sync(self):
+        # check if sync works at all, not sure how to check it
+        self.g = gdbm.open(filename, 'cf')
+        self.g['x'] = 'x' * 10000
+        self.g.sync()
+
+    def test_get_key(self):
+        self.g = gdbm.open(filename, 'cf')
+        self.g['x'] = 'x' * 10000
+        self.g.close()
+        self.g = gdbm.open(filename, 'r')
+        self.assertEquals(self.g['x'], 'x' * 10000)
+
+    def test_key_with_null_bytes(self):
+        key = 'a\x00b'
+        value = 'c\x00d'
+        self.g = gdbm.open(filename, 'cf')
+        self.g[key] = value
+        self.g.close()
+        self.g = gdbm.open(filename, 'r')
+        self.assertEquals(self.g[key], value)
+        self.assertTrue(key in self.g)
+        self.assertTrue(self.g.has_key(key))
 
 def test_main():
     run_unittest(TestGdbm)
diff --git a/lib_pypy/_tkinter/tklib.py b/lib_pypy/_tkinter/tklib.py
--- a/lib_pypy/_tkinter/tklib.py
+++ b/lib_pypy/_tkinter/tklib.py
@@ -121,6 +121,10 @@
     incdirs = []
     linklibs = ['tcl85', 'tk85']
     libdirs = []
+elif sys.platform == 'darwin':
+    incdirs = ['/System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/Current/Headers/']
+    linklibs = ['tcl', 'tk']
+    libdirs = []
 else:
     incdirs=['/usr/include/tcl']
     linklibs=['tcl', 'tk']
diff --git a/lib_pypy/gdbm.py b/lib_pypy/gdbm.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib_pypy/gdbm.py
@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+import cffi, os
+
+ffi = cffi.FFI()
+ffi.cdef('''
+#define GDBM_READER ...
+#define GDBM_WRITER ...
+#define GDBM_WRCREAT ...
+#define GDBM_NEWDB ...
+#define GDBM_FAST ...
+#define GDBM_SYNC ...
+#define GDBM_NOLOCK ...
+#define GDBM_REPLACE ...
+
+void* gdbm_open(char *, int, int, int, void (*)());
+void gdbm_close(void*);
+
+typedef struct {
+    char *dptr;
+    int   dsize;
+} datum;
+
+datum gdbm_fetch(void*, datum);
+int gdbm_delete(void*, datum);
+int gdbm_store(void*, datum, datum, int);
+int gdbm_exists(void*, datum);
+
+int gdbm_reorganize(void*);
+
+datum gdbm_firstkey(void*);
+datum gdbm_nextkey(void*, datum);
+void gdbm_sync(void*);
+
+char* gdbm_strerror(int);
+int gdbm_errno;
+
+void free(void*);
+''')
+
+try:
+    lib = ffi.verify('''
+    #include "gdbm.h"
+    ''', libraries=['gdbm'])
+except cffi.VerificationError as e:
+    # distutils does not preserve the actual message,
+    # but the verification is simple enough that the
+    # failure must be due to missing gdbm dev libs
+    raise ImportError('%s: %s' %(e.__class__.__name__, e))
+
+class error(Exception):
+    pass
+
+def _fromstr(key):
+    if not isinstance(key, str):
+        raise TypeError("gdbm mappings have string indices only")
+    return {'dptr': ffi.new("char[]", key), 'dsize': len(key)}
+
+class gdbm(object):
+    ll_dbm = None
+
+    def __init__(self, filename, iflags, mode):
+        res = lib.gdbm_open(filename, 0, iflags, mode, ffi.NULL)
+        self.size = -1
+        if not res:
+            self._raise_from_errno()
+        self.ll_dbm = res
+
+    def close(self):
+        if self.ll_dbm:
+            lib.gdbm_close(self.ll_dbm)
+            self.ll_dbm = None
+
+    def _raise_from_errno(self):
+        if ffi.errno:
+            raise error(os.strerror(ffi.errno))
+        raise error(lib.gdbm_strerror(lib.gdbm_errno))
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        if self.size < 0:
+            self.size = len(self.keys())
+        return self.size
+
+    def __setitem__(self, key, value):
+        self._check_closed()
+        self._size = -1
+        r = lib.gdbm_store(self.ll_dbm, _fromstr(key), _fromstr(value),
+                           lib.GDBM_REPLACE)
+        if r < 0:
+            self._raise_from_errno()
+
+    def __delitem__(self, key):
+        self._check_closed()
+        res = lib.gdbm_delete(self.ll_dbm, _fromstr(key))
+        if res < 0:
+            raise KeyError(key)
+
+    def __contains__(self, key):
+        self._check_closed()
+        return lib.gdbm_exists(self.ll_dbm, _fromstr(key))
+    has_key = __contains__
+
+    def __getitem__(self, key):
+        self._check_closed()
+        drec = lib.gdbm_fetch(self.ll_dbm, _fromstr(key))
+        if not drec.dptr:
+            raise KeyError(key)
+        res = str(ffi.buffer(drec.dptr, drec.dsize))
+        lib.free(drec.dptr)
+        return res
+
+    def keys(self):
+        self._check_closed()
+        l = []
+        key = lib.gdbm_firstkey(self.ll_dbm)
+        while key.dptr:
+            l.append(str(ffi.buffer(key.dptr, key.dsize)))
+            nextkey = lib.gdbm_nextkey(self.ll_dbm, key)
+            lib.free(key.dptr)
+            key = nextkey
+        return l
+
+    def firstkey(self):
+        self._check_closed()
+        key = lib.gdbm_firstkey(self.ll_dbm)
+        if key.dptr:
+            res = str(ffi.buffer(key.dptr, key.dsize))
+            lib.free(key.dptr)
+            return res
+
+    def nextkey(self, key):
+        self._check_closed()
+        key = lib.gdbm_nextkey(self.ll_dbm, _fromstr(key))
+        if key.dptr:
+            res = str(ffi.buffer(key.dptr, key.dsize))
+            lib.free(key.dptr)
+            return res
+
+    def reorganize(self):
+        self._check_closed()
+        if lib.gdbm_reorganize(self.ll_dbm) < 0:
+            self._raise_from_errno()
+
+    def _check_closed(self):
+        if not self.ll_dbm:
+            raise error("GDBM object has already been closed")
+
+    __del__ = close
+
+    def sync(self):
+        self._check_closed()
+        lib.gdbm_sync(self.ll_dbm)
+
+def open(filename, flags='r', mode=0o666):
+    if flags[0] == 'r':
+        iflags = lib.GDBM_READER
+    elif flags[0] == 'w':
+        iflags = lib.GDBM_WRITER
+    elif flags[0] == 'c':
+        iflags = lib.GDBM_WRCREAT
+    elif flags[0] == 'n':
+        iflags = lib.GDBM_NEWDB
+    else:
+        raise error("First flag must be one of 'r', 'w', 'c' or 'n'")
+    for flag in flags[1:]:
+        if flag == 'f':
+            iflags |= lib.GDBM_FAST
+        elif flag == 's':
+            iflags |= lib.GDBM_SYNC
+        elif flag == 'u':
+            iflags |= lib.GDBM_NOLOCK
+        else:
+            raise error("Flag '%s' not supported" % flag)
+    return gdbm(filename, iflags, mode)
+
+open_flags = "rwcnfsu"
diff --git a/pypy/doc/conf.py b/pypy/doc/conf.py
--- a/pypy/doc/conf.py
+++ b/pypy/doc/conf.py
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '2.2'
+version = '2.3'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2.2.1'
+release = '2.3.0'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/pypy/doc/how-to-release.rst b/pypy/doc/how-to-release.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/how-to-release.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/how-to-release.rst
@@ -28,10 +28,6 @@
   pypy/doc/tool/makecontributor.py generates the list of contributors
 * rename pypy/doc/whatsnew_head.rst to whatsnew_VERSION.rst
   and create a fresh whatsnew_head.rst after the release
-* merge PYPY_IRC_TOPIC environment variable handling from previous release
-  in pypy/doc/getting-started-dev.rst, pypy/doc/man/pypy.1.rst, and
-  pypy/interpreter/app_main.py so release versions will not print a random
-  IRC topic by default.
 * change the tracker to have a new release tag to file bugs against
 * go to pypy/tool/release and run:
   force-builds.py <release branch>
diff --git a/pypy/doc/index.rst b/pypy/doc/index.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/index.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/index.rst
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 
 * `FAQ`_: some frequently asked questions.
 
-* `Release 2.2.1`_: the latest official release
+* `Release 2.3.0`_: the latest official release
 
 * `PyPy Blog`_: news and status info about PyPy 
 
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
 .. _`Getting Started`: getting-started.html
 .. _`Papers`: extradoc.html
 .. _`Videos`: video-index.html
-.. _`Release 2.2.1`: http://pypy.org/download.html
+.. _`Release 2.3.0`: http://pypy.org/download.html
 .. _`speed.pypy.org`: http://speed.pypy.org
 .. _`RPython toolchain`: translation.html
 .. _`potential project ideas`: project-ideas.html
diff --git a/pypy/doc/man/pypy.1.rst b/pypy/doc/man/pypy.1.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/man/pypy.1.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/man/pypy.1.rst
@@ -100,6 +100,8 @@
         ``debug_start``/``debug_stop`` but not any nested
         ``debug_print``.
         *fname* can be ``-`` to log to *stderr*.
+        Note that using a : in fname is a bad idea, Windows
+        users, beware.
 
     ``:``\ *fname*
         Full logging, including ``debug_print``.
@@ -113,6 +115,11 @@
     generate a log suitable for *jitviewer*, a tool for debugging
     performance issues under PyPy.
 
+``PYPY_IRC_TOPIC``
+    If set to a non-empty value, print a random #pypy IRC
+    topic at startup of interactive mode.
+
+
 .. include:: ../gc_info.rst
    :start-line: 7
 
diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-2.3.0.rst b/pypy/doc/release-2.3.0.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/release-2.3.0.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/release-2.3.0.rst
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
 * Fix handling of tp_name for type objects
 
 .. _`HippyVM`: http://www.hippyvm.com
-.. _`whats-new`: :http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/whatsnew-2.3.0.html
+.. _`whats-new`: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/whatsnew-2.3.0.html
 
 
 New Platforms and Features
diff --git a/pypy/doc/stm.rst b/pypy/doc/stm.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/stm.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/stm.rst
@@ -1,70 +1,78 @@
-======================
-Transactional Memory
-======================
+
+=============================
+Software Transactional Memory
+=============================
 
 .. contents::
 
 
 This page is about ``pypy-stm``, a special in-development version of
 PyPy which can run multiple independent CPU-hungry threads in the same
-process in parallel.  It is side-stepping what is known in the Python
-world as the "global interpreter lock (GIL)" problem.
+process in parallel.  It is a solution to what is known in the Python
+world as the "global interpreter lock (GIL)" problem --- it is an
+implementation of Python without the GIL.
 
-"STM" stands for Software Transactional Memory, the technique used
+"STM" stands for Software `Transactional Memory`_, the technique used
 internally.  This page describes ``pypy-stm`` from the perspective of a
 user, describes work in progress, and finally gives references to more
 implementation details.
 
-This work was done mostly by Remi Meier and Armin Rigo.  Thanks to all
-donors for crowd-funding the work so far!  Please have a look at the
-`2nd call for donation`_.
+This work was done by Remi Meier and Armin Rigo.  Thanks to all donors
+for crowd-funding the work so far!  Please have a look at the `2nd call
+for donation`_.
 
+.. _`Transactional Memory`: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_memory
 .. _`2nd call for donation`: http://pypy.org/tmdonate2.html
 
 
 Introduction
 ============
 
-``pypy-stm`` is a variant of the regular PyPy interpreter.  With caveats
-listed below, it should be in theory within 25%-50% slower than a
-regular PyPy, comparing the JIT version in both cases.  It is called
+``pypy-stm`` is a variant of the regular PyPy interpreter.  With caveats_
+listed below, it should be in theory within 20%-50% slower than a
+regular PyPy, comparing the JIT version in both cases (but see below!).
+It is called
 STM for Software Transactional Memory, which is the internal technique
 used (see `Reference to implementation details`_).
 
-What you get in exchange for this slow-down is that ``pypy-stm`` runs
-any multithreaded Python program on multiple CPUs at once.  Programs
-running two threads or more in parallel should ideally run faster than
-in a regular PyPy, either now or soon as issues are fixed.  In one way,
-that's all there is to it: this is a GIL-less Python, feel free to
-`download and try it`__.  However, the deeper idea behind the
-``pypy-stm`` project is to improve what is so far the state-of-the-art
-for using multiple CPUs, which for cases where separate processes don't
-work is done by writing explicitly multi-threaded programs.  Instead,
-``pypy-stm`` is pushing forward an approach to *hide* the threads, as
-described below in `atomic sections`_.
+The benefit is that the resulting ``pypy-stm`` can execute multiple
+threads of Python code in parallel.  Programs running two threads or
+more in parallel should ideally run faster than in a regular PyPy
+(either now, or soon as bugs are fixed).
 
+* ``pypy-stm`` is fully compatible with a GIL-based PyPy; you can use
+  it as a drop-in replacement and multithreaded programs will run on
+  multiple cores.
 
-.. __:
+* ``pypy-stm`` does not impose any special API to the user, but it
+  provides a new pure Python module called `transactional_memory`_ with
+  features to inspect the state or debug conflicts_ that prevent
+  parallelization.  This module can also be imported on top of a non-STM
+  PyPy or CPython.
 
-Current status
-==============
+* Building on top of the way the GIL is removed, we will talk
+  about `Atomic sections, Transactions, etc.: a better way to write
+  parallel programs`_.
+
+
+Getting Started
+===============
 
 **pypy-stm requires 64-bit Linux for now.**
 
 Development is done in the branch `stmgc-c7`_.  If you are only
-interested in trying it out, you can download a Ubuntu 12.04 binary
-here__ (``pypy-2.2.x-stm*.tar.bz2``; this version is a release mode,
-but not stripped of debug symbols).  The current version supports four
-"segments", which means that it will run up to four threads in parallel,
-in other words it is running a thread pool up to 4 threads emulating normal
-threads.
+interested in trying it out, you can download a Ubuntu binary here__
+(``pypy-2.3.x-stm*.tar.bz2``, Ubuntu 12.04-14.04; these versions are
+release mode, but not stripped of debug symbols).  The current version
+supports four "segments", which means that it will run up to four
+threads in parallel.
 
 To build a version from sources, you first need to compile a custom
-version of clang; we recommend downloading `llvm and clang like
-described here`__, but at revision 201645 (use ``svn co -r 201645 ...``
+version of clang(!); we recommend downloading `llvm and clang like
+described here`__, but at revision 201645 (use ``svn co -r 201645 <path>``
 for all checkouts).  Then apply all the patches in `this directory`__:
-they are fixes for the very extensive usage that pypy-stm does of a
-clang-only feature (without them, you get crashes of clang).  Then get
+they are fixes for a clang-only feature that hasn't been used so heavily
+in the past (without the patches, you get crashes of clang).  Then get
 the branch `stmgc-c7`_ of PyPy and run::
 
    rpython/bin/rpython -Ojit --stm pypy/goal/targetpypystandalone.py
@@ -75,23 +83,31 @@
 .. __: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/stmgc/src/default/c7/llvmfix/
 
 
-Caveats:
+.. _caveats:
 
-* So far, small examples work fine, but there are still a number of
-  bugs.  We're busy fixing them.
+Current status
+--------------
+
+* So far, small examples work fine, but there are still a few bugs.
+  We're busy fixing them as we find them; feel free to `report bugs`_.
+
+* It runs with an overhead as low as 20% on examples like "richards".
+  There are also other examples with higher overheads --up to 10x for
+  "translate.py"-- which we are still trying to understand.  One suspect
+  is our partial GC implementation, see below.
 
 * Currently limited to 1.5 GB of RAM (this is just a parameter in
-  `core.h`__).  Memory overflows are not detected correctly, so may
-  cause segmentation faults.
+  `core.h`__).  Memory overflows are not correctly handled; they cause
+  segfaults.
 
-* The JIT warm-up time is abysmal (as opposed to the regular PyPy's,
-  which is "only" bad).  Moreover, you should run it with a command like
-  ``pypy-stm --jit trace_limit=60000 args...``; the default value of
-  6000 for ``trace_limit`` is currently too low (6000 should become
-  reasonable again as we improve).  Also, in order to produce machine
-  code, the JIT needs to enter a special single-threaded mode for now.
-  This all means that you *will* get very bad performance results if
-  your program doesn't run for *many* seconds for now.
+* The JIT warm-up time improved recently but is still bad.  In order to
+  produce machine code, the JIT needs to enter a special single-threaded
+  mode for now.  This means that you will get bad performance results if
+  your program doesn't run for several seconds, where *several* can mean
+  *many.*  When trying benchmarks, be sure to check that you have
+  reached the warmed state, i.e. the performance is not improving any
+  more.  This should be clear from the fact that as long as it's
+  producing more machine code, ``pypy-stm`` will run on a single core.
 
 * The GC is new; although clearly inspired by PyPy's regular GC, it
   misses a number of optimizations for now.  Programs allocating large
@@ -108,111 +124,197 @@
 * The STM system is based on very efficient read/write barriers, which
   are mostly done (their placement could be improved a bit in
   JIT-generated machine code).  But the overall bookkeeping logic could
-  see more improvements (see Statistics_ below).
-
-* You can use `atomic sections`_, but the most visible missing thing is
-  that you don't get reports about the "conflicts" you get.  This would
-  be the first thing that you need in order to start using atomic
-  sections more extensively.  Also, for now: for better results, try to
-  explicitly force a transaction break just before (and possibly after)
-  each large atomic section, with ``time.sleep(0)``.
+  see more improvements (see `Low-level statistics`_ below).
 
 * Forking the process is slow because the complete memory needs to be
-  copied manually right now.
+  copied manually.  A warning is printed to this effect.
 
-* Very long-running processes should eventually crash on an assertion
-  error because of a non-implemented overflow of an internal 29-bit
-  number, but this requires at the very least ten hours --- more
-  probably, several days or more.
+* Very long-running processes (on the order of days) will eventually
+  crash on an assertion error because of a non-implemented overflow of
+  an internal 29-bit number.
 
 .. _`report bugs`: https://bugs.pypy.org/
 .. __: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/raw/stmgc-c7/rpython/translator/stm/src_stm/stm/core.h
 
 
 
-Statistics
+User Guide
 ==========
+  
 
-When a non-main thread finishes, you get statistics printed to stderr,
-looking like that::
+Drop-in replacement
+-------------------
 
-      thread 0x7f73377fe600:
-          outside transaction          42182  0.506 s
-          run current                  85466  0.000 s
-          run committed                34262  3.178 s
-          run aborted write write       6982  0.083 s
-          run aborted write read         550  0.005 s
-          run aborted inevitable         388  0.010 s
-          run aborted other                0  0.000 s
-          wait free segment                0  0.000 s
-          wait write read                 78  0.027 s
-          wait inevitable                887  0.490 s
-          wait other                       0  0.000 s
-          bookkeeping                  51418  0.606 s
-          minor gc                    162970  1.135 s
-          major gc                         1  0.019 s
-          sync pause                   59173  1.738 s
-          spin loop                   129512  0.094 s
+Multithreaded, CPU-intensive Python programs should work unchanged on
+``pypy-stm``.  They will run using multiple CPU cores in parallel.
 
-The first number is a counter; the second number gives the associated
-time (the amount of real time that the thread was in this state; the sum
-of all the times should be equal to the total time between the thread's
-start and the thread's end).  The most important points are "run
-committed", which gives the amount of useful work, and "outside
-transaction", which should give the time spent e.g. in library calls
-(right now it seems to be a bit larger than that; to investigate).
-Everything else is overhead of various forms.  (Short-, medium- and
-long-term future work involves reducing this overhead :-)
+The existing semantics of the GIL (Global Interpreter Lock) are
+unchanged: although running on multiple cores in parallel, ``pypy-stm``
+gives the illusion that threads are run serially, with switches only
+occurring between bytecodes, not in the middle of them.  Programs can
+rely on this: using ``shared_list.append()/pop()`` or
+``shared_dict.setdefault()`` as synchronization mecanisms continues to
+work as expected.
 
-These statistics are not printed out for the main thread, for now.
+This works by internally considering the points where a standard PyPy or
+CPython would release the GIL, and replacing them with the boundaries of
+"transaction".  Like their database equivalent, multiple transactions
+can execute in parallel, but will commit in some serial order.  They
+appear to behave as if they were completely run in this serialization
+order.
 
 
 Atomic sections
-===============
+---------------
 
-While one of the goal of pypy-stm is to give a GIL-free but otherwise
-unmodified Python, the other goal is to push for a better way to use
-multithreading.  For this, you (as the Python programmer) get an API
-in the ``__pypy__.thread`` submodule:
+PyPy supports *atomic sections,* which are blocks of code which you want
+to execute without "releasing the GIL".  *This is experimental and may
+be removed in the future.*  In STM terms, this means blocks of code that
+are executed while guaranteeing that the transaction is not interrupted
+in the middle.
 
-* ``__pypy__.thread.atomic``: a context manager (i.e. you use it in
-  a ``with __pypy__.thread.atomic:`` statement).  It runs the whole
-  block of code without breaking the current transaction --- from
-  the point of view of a regular CPython/PyPy, this is equivalent to
-  saying that the GIL will not be released at all between the start and
-  the end of this block of code.
+Here is a usage example::
 
-The obvious usage is to use atomic blocks in the same way as one would
-use locks: to protect changes to some shared data, you do them in a
-``with atomic`` block, just like you would otherwise do them in a ``with
-mylock`` block after ``mylock = thread.allocate_lock()``.  This allows
-you not to care about acquiring the correct locks in the correct order;
-it is equivalent to having only one global lock.  This is how
-transactional memory is `generally described`__: as a way to efficiently
-execute such atomic blocks, running them in parallel while giving the
-illusion that they run in some serial order.
+    with __pypy__.thread.atomic:
+        assert len(lst1) == 10
+        x = lst1.pop(0)
+        lst1.append(x)
 
-.. __: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_memory
+In this (bad) example, we are sure that the item popped off one end of
+the list is appened again at the other end atomically.  It means that
+another thread can run ``len(lst1)`` or ``x in lst1`` without any
+particular synchronization, and always see the same results,
+respectively ``10`` and ``True``.  It will never see the intermediate
+state where ``lst1`` only contains 9 elements.  Atomic sections are
+similar to re-entrant locks (they can be nested), but additionally they
+protect against the concurrent execution of *any* code instead of just
+code that happens to be protected by the same lock in other threads.
 
-However, the less obvious intended usage of atomic sections is as a
-wide-ranging replacement of explicit threads.  You can turn a program
-that is not multi-threaded at all into a program that uses threads
-internally, together with large atomic sections to keep the behavior
-unchanged.  This capability can be hidden in a library or in the
-framework you use; the end user's code does not need to be explicitly
-aware of using threads.  For a simple example of this, see
-`transaction.py`_ in ``lib_pypy``.  The idea is that if you have a
-program where the function ``f(key, value)`` runs on every item of some
-big dictionary, you can replace the loop with::
+Note that the notion of atomic sections is very strong. If you write
+code like this::
+
+    with __pypy__.thread.atomic:
+        time.sleep(10)
+
+then, if you think about it as if we had a GIL, you are executing a
+10-seconds-long atomic transaction without releasing the GIL at all.
+This prevents all other threads from progressing at all.  While it is
+not strictly true in ``pypy-stm``, the exact rules for when other
+threads can progress or not are rather complicated; you have to consider
+it likely that such a piece of code will eventually block all other
+threads anyway.
+
+Note that if you want to experiment with ``atomic``, you may have to add
+manually a transaction break just before the atomic block.  This is
+because the boundaries of the block are not guaranteed to be the
+boundaries of the transaction: the latter is at least as big as the
+block, but maybe bigger.  Therefore, if you run a big atomic block, it
+is a good idea to break the transaction just before.  This can be done
+e.g. by the hack of calling ``time.sleep(0)``.  (This may be fixed at
+some point.)
+
+There are also issues with the interaction of locks and atomic blocks.
+This can be seen if you write to files (which have locks), including
+with a ``print`` to standard output.  If one thread tries to acquire a
+lock while running in an atomic block, and another thread has got the
+same lock, then the former may fail with a ``thread.error``.  The reason
+is that "waiting" for some condition to become true --while running in
+an atomic block-- does not really make sense.  For now you can work
+around it by making sure that, say, all your prints are either in an
+``atomic`` block or none of them are.  (This kind of issue is
+theoretically hard to solve.)
+
+
+Locks
+-----
+
+**Not Implemented Yet**
+
+The thread module's locks have their basic semantic unchanged.  However,
+using them (e.g. in ``with my_lock:`` blocks) starts an alternative
+running mode, called `Software lock elision`_.  This means that PyPy
+will try to make sure that the transaction extends until the point where
+the lock is released, and if it succeeds, then the acquiring and
+releasing of the lock will be "elided".  This means that in this case,
+the whole transaction will technically not cause any write into the lock
+object --- it was unacquired before, and is still unacquired after the
+transaction.
+
+This is specially useful if two threads run ``with my_lock:`` blocks
+with the same lock.  If they each run a transaction that is long enough
+to contain the whole block, then all writes into the lock will be elided
+and the two transactions will not conflict with each other.  As usual,
+they will be serialized in some order: one of the two will appear to run
+before the other.  Simply, each of them executes an "acquire" followed
+by a "release" in the same transaction.  As explained above, the lock
+state goes from "unacquired" to "unacquired" and can thus be left
+unchanged.
+
+This approach can gracefully fail: unlike atomic sections, there is no
+guarantee that the transaction runs until the end of the block.  If you
+perform any input/output while you hold the lock, the transaction will
+end as usual just before the input/output operation.  If this occurs,
+then the lock elision mode is cancelled and the lock's "acquired" state
+is really written.
+
+Even if the lock is really acquired already, a transaction doesn't have
+to wait for it to become free again.  It can enter the elision-mode anyway
+and tentatively execute the content of the block.  It is only at the end,
+when trying to commit, that the thread will pause.  As soon as the real
+value stored in the lock is switched back to "unacquired", it can then
+proceed and attempt to commit its already-executed transaction (which
+can fail and abort and restart from the scratch, as usual).
+
+Note that this is all *not implemented yet,* but we expect it to work
+even if you acquire and release several locks.  The elision-mode
+transaction will extend until the first lock you acquired is released,
+or until the code performs an input/output or a wait operation (for
+example, waiting for another lock that is currently not free).  In the
+common case of acquiring several locks in nested order, they will all be
+elided by the same transaction.
+
+.. _`software lock elision`: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/239410
+
+
+Atomic sections, Transactions, etc.: a better way to write parallel programs
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+(This section is based on locks as we plan to implement them, but also
+works with the existing atomic sections.)
+
+In the cases where elision works, the block of code can run in parallel
+with other blocks of code *even if they are protected by the same lock.*
+You still get the illusion that the blocks are run sequentially.  This
+works even for multiple threads that run each a series of such blocks
+and nothing else, protected by one single global lock.  This is
+basically the Python application-level equivalent of what was done with
+the interpreter in ``pypy-stm``: while you think you are writing
+thread-unfriendly code because of this global lock, actually the
+underlying system is able to make it run on multiple cores anyway.
+
+This capability can be hidden in a library or in the framework you use;
+the end user's code does not need to be explicitly aware of using
+threads.  For a simple example of this, there is `transaction.py`_ in
+``lib_pypy``.  The idea is that you write, or already have, some program
+where the function ``f(key, value)`` runs on every item of some big
+dictionary, say::
+
+    for key, value in bigdict.items():
+        f(key, value)
+
+Then you simply replace the loop with::
 
     for key, value in bigdict.items():
         transaction.add(f, key, value)
     transaction.run()
 
 This code runs the various calls to ``f(key, value)`` using a thread
-pool, but every single call is done in an atomic section.  The end
-result is that the behavior should be exactly equivalent: you don't get
-any extra multithreading issue.
+pool, but every single call is executed under the protection of a unique
+lock.  The end result is that the behavior is exactly equivalent --- in
+fact it makes little sense to do it in this way on a non-STM PyPy or on
+CPython.  But on ``pypy-stm``, the various locked calls to ``f(key,
+value)`` can tentatively be executed in parallel, even if the observable
+result is as if they were executed in some serial order.
 
 This approach hides the notion of threads from the end programmer,
 including all the hard multithreading-related issues.  This is not the
@@ -223,41 +325,176 @@
 only requires that the end programmer identifies where this parallelism
 is likely to be found, and communicates it to the system, using for
 example the ``transaction.add()`` scheme.
-
+    
 .. _`transaction.py`: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/raw/stmgc-c7/lib_pypy/transaction.py
 .. _OpenMP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMP
 
-==================
 
-Other APIs in pypy-stm:
+.. _`transactional_memory`:
 
-* ``__pypy__.thread.getsegmentlimit()``: return the number of "segments"
-  in this pypy-stm.  This is the limit above which more threads will not
-  be able to execute on more cores.  (Right now it is limited to 4 due
-  to inter-segment overhead, but should be increased in the future.  It
+API of transactional_memory
+---------------------------
+
+The new pure Python module ``transactional_memory`` runs on both CPython
+and PyPy, both with and without STM.  It contains:
+
+* ``getsegmentlimit()``: return the number of "segments" in
+  this pypy-stm.  This is the limit above which more threads will not be
+  able to execute on more cores.  (Right now it is limited to 4 due to
+  inter-segment overhead, but should be increased in the future.  It
   should also be settable, and the default value should depend on the
-  number of actual CPUs.)
+  number of actual CPUs.)  If STM is not available, this returns 1.
 
-* ``__pypy__.thread.exclusive_atomic``: same as ``atomic``, but
-  raises an exception if you attempt to nest it inside another
-  ``atomic``.
+* ``print_abort_info(minimum_time=0.0)``: debugging help.  Each thread
+  remembers the longest abort or pause it did because of cross-thread
+  contention_.  This function prints it to ``stderr`` if the time lost
+  is greater than ``minimum_time`` seconds.  The record is then
+  cleared, to make it ready for new events.  This function returns
+  ``True`` if it printed a report, and ``False`` otherwise.
 
-* ``__pypy__.thread.signals_enabled``: a context manager that runs
-  its block with signals enabled.  By default, signals are only
-  enabled in the main thread; a non-main thread will not receive
-  signals (this is like CPython).  Enabling signals in non-main threads
-  is useful for libraries where threads are hidden and the end user is
-  not expecting his code to run elsewhere than in the main thread.
 
-Note that all of this API is (or will be) implemented in a regular PyPy
-too: for example, ``with atomic`` will simply mean "don't release the
-GIL" and ``getsegmentlimit()`` will return 1.
+API of __pypy__.thread
+----------------------
 
-==================
+The ``__pypy__.thread`` submodule is a built-in module of PyPy that
+contains a few internal built-in functions used by the
+``transactional_memory`` module, plus the following:
+    
+* ``__pypy__.thread.atomic``: a context manager to run a block in
+  fully atomic mode, without "releasing the GIL".  (May be eventually
+  removed?)
+
+* ``__pypy__.thread.signals_enabled``: a context manager that runs its
+  block with signals enabled.  By default, signals are only enabled in
+  the main thread; a non-main thread will not receive signals (this is
+  like CPython).  Enabling signals in non-main threads is useful for
+  libraries where threads are hidden and the end user is not expecting
+  his code to run elsewhere than in the main thread.
+
+
+.. _contention:
+
+Conflicts
+---------
+
+Based on Software Transactional Memory, the ``pypy-stm`` solution is
+prone to "conflicts".  To repeat the basic idea, threads execute their code
+speculatively, and at known points (e.g. between bytecodes) they
+coordinate with each other to agree on which order their respective
+actions should be "committed", i.e. become globally visible.  Each
+duration of time between two commit-points is called a transaction.
+
+A conflict occurs when there is no consistent ordering.  The classical
+example is if two threads both tried to change the value of the same
+global variable.  In that case, only one of them can be allowed to
+proceed, and the other one must be either paused or aborted (restarting
+the transaction).  If this occurs too often, parallelization fails.
+
+How much actual parallelization a multithreaded program can see is a bit
+subtle.  Basically, a program not using ``__pypy__.thread.atomic`` or
+eliding locks, or doing so for very short amounts of time, will
+parallelize almost freely (as long as it's not some artificial example
+where, say, all threads try to increase the same global counter and do
+nothing else).
+
+However, using if the program requires longer transactions, it comes
+with less obvious rules.  The exact details may vary from version to
+version, too, until they are a bit more stabilized.  Here is an
+overview.
+
+Parallelization works as long as two principles are respected.  The
+first one is that the transactions must not *conflict* with each other.
+The most obvious sources of conflicts are threads that all increment a
+global shared counter, or that all store the result of their
+computations into the same list --- or, more subtly, that all ``pop()``
+the work to do from the same list, because that is also a mutation of
+the list.  (It is expected that some STM-aware library will eventually
+be designed to help with conflict problems, like a STM-aware queue.)
+
+A conflict occurs as follows: when a transaction commits (i.e. finishes
+successfully) it may cause other transactions that are still in progress
+to abort and retry.  This is a waste of CPU time, but even in the worst
+case senario it is not worse than a GIL, because at least one
+transaction succeeds (so we get at worst N-1 CPUs doing useless jobs and
+1 CPU doing a job that commits successfully).
+
+Conflicts do occur, of course, and it is pointless to try to avoid them
+all.  For example they can be abundant during some warm-up phase.  What
+is important is to keep them rare enough in total.
+
+Another issue is that of avoiding long-running so-called "inevitable"
+transactions ("inevitable" is taken in the sense of "which cannot be
+avoided", i.e. transactions which cannot abort any more).  Transactions
+like that should only occur if you use ``__pypy__.thread.atomic``,
+generally become of I/O in atomic blocks.  They work, but the
+transaction is turned inevitable before the I/O is performed.  For all
+the remaining execution time of the atomic block, they will impede
+parallel work.  The best is to organize the code so that such operations
+are done completely outside ``__pypy__.thread.atomic``.
+
+(This is related to the fact that blocking I/O operations are
+discouraged with Twisted, and if you really need them, you should do
+them on their own separate thread.)
+
+In case of lock elision, we don't get long-running inevitable
+transactions, but a different problem can occur: doing I/O cancels lock
+elision, and the lock turns into a real lock, preventing other threads
+from committing if they also need this lock.  (More about it when lock
+elision is implemented and tested.)
+
+
+
+Implementation
+==============
+
+XXX this section mostly empty for now
+
+
+Low-level statistics
+--------------------
+
+When a non-main thread finishes, you get low-level statistics printed to
+stderr, looking like that::
+
+      thread 0x7f73377fe600:
+          outside transaction          42182    0.506 s
+          run current                  85466    0.000 s
+          run committed                34262    3.178 s
+          run aborted write write       6982    0.083 s
+          run aborted write read         550    0.005 s
+          run aborted inevitable         388    0.010 s
+          run aborted other                0    0.000 s
+          wait free segment                0    0.000 s
+          wait write read                 78    0.027 s
+          wait inevitable                887    0.490 s
+          wait other                       0    0.000 s
+          sync commit soon                 1    0.000 s
+          bookkeeping                  51418    0.606 s
+          minor gc                    162970    1.135 s
+          major gc                         1    0.019 s
+          sync pause                   59173    1.738 s
+          longest recordered marker          0.000826 s
+          "File "x.py", line 5, in f"
+
+On each line, the first number is a counter, and the second number gives
+the associated time --- the amount of real time that the thread was in
+this state.  The sum of all the times should be equal to the total time
+between the thread's start and the thread's end.  The most important
+points are "run committed", which gives the amount of useful work, and
+"outside transaction", which should give the time spent e.g. in library
+calls (right now it seems to be larger than that; to investigate).  The
+various "run aborted" and "wait" entries are time lost due to
+conflicts_.  Everything else is overhead of various forms.  (Short-,
+medium- and long-term future work involves reducing this overhead :-)
+
+The last two lines are special; they are an internal marker read by
+``transactional_memory.print_abort_info()``.
+
+These statistics are not printed out for the main thread, for now.
 
 
 Reference to implementation details
-===================================
+-----------------------------------
 
 The core of the implementation is in a separate C library called stmgc_,
 in the c7_ subdirectory.  Please see the `README.txt`_ for more
@@ -282,3 +519,15 @@
 .. __: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/raw/stmgc-c7/rpython/translator/stm/src_stm/stmgcintf.c
 .. __: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/raw/stmgc-c7/rpython/jit/backend/llsupport/stmrewrite.py
 .. __: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/raw/stmgc-c7/rpython/jit/backend/x86/assembler.py
+
+
+
+See also
+========
+
+See also
+https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/raw/default/pypy/doc/project-ideas.rst
+(section about STM).
+
+
+.. include:: _ref.txt
diff --git a/pypy/doc/whatsnew-2.3.0.rst b/pypy/doc/whatsnew-2.3.0.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/whatsnew-2.3.0.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/whatsnew-2.3.0.rst
@@ -167,3 +167,6 @@
 
 .. branch: fix-tpname
 Changes hacks surrounding W_TypeObject.name to match CPython's tp_name
+
+.. branch: tkinter_osx_packaging
+OS/X specific header path
diff --git a/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst b/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/whatsnew-head.rst
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 =======================
 
 .. this is a revision shortly after release-2.3.x
-.. startrev: ec864bd08d50
+.. startrev: f556d32f8319
diff --git a/pypy/goal/targetpypystandalone.py b/pypy/goal/targetpypystandalone.py
--- a/pypy/goal/targetpypystandalone.py
+++ b/pypy/goal/targetpypystandalone.py
@@ -56,7 +56,10 @@
             try:
                 space.call_function(w_run_toplevel, w_call_startup_gateway)
                 if rlocale.HAVE_LANGINFO:
-                    rlocale.setlocale(rlocale.LC_ALL, '')
+                    try:
+                        rlocale.setlocale(rlocale.LC_ALL, '')
+                    except rlocale.LocaleError:
+                        pass
                 w_executable = space.fsdecode(space.wrapbytes(argv[0]))
                 w_argv = space.newlist([space.fsdecode(space.wrapbytes(s))
                                         for s in argv[1:]])
diff --git a/pypy/interpreter/app_main.py b/pypy/interpreter/app_main.py
--- a/pypy/interpreter/app_main.py
+++ b/pypy/interpreter/app_main.py
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@
 PYTHONPATH   : %r-separated list of directories prefixed to the
                default module search path.  The result is sys.path.
 PYTHONIOENCODING: Encoding[:errors] used for stdin/stdout/stderr.
+PYPY_IRC_TOPIC: if set to a non-empty value, print a random #pypy IRC
+               topic at startup of interactive mode.
+PYPYLOG: If set to a non-empty value, enable logging.
 """
 
 try:
@@ -113,6 +116,7 @@
 
     except BaseException as e:
         try:
+            initstdio()
             stderr = sys.stderr
             print('Error calling sys.excepthook:', file=stderr)
             originalexcepthook(type(e), e, e.__traceback__)
@@ -678,7 +682,11 @@
     if inspect_requested():
         try:
             from _pypy_interact import interactive_console
-            success = run_toplevel(interactive_console, mainmodule, quiet)
+            pypy_version_info = getattr(sys, 'pypy_version_info', sys.version_info)
+            irc_topic = pypy_version_info[3] != 'final' or (
+                            readenv and os.getenv('PYPY_IRC_TOPIC'))
+            success = run_toplevel(interactive_console, mainmodule,
+                                   quiet=quiet or not irc_topic)
         except SystemExit as e:
             status = e.code
         else:
diff --git a/pypy/interpreter/test/test_app_main.py b/pypy/interpreter/test/test_app_main.py
--- a/pypy/interpreter/test/test_app_main.py
+++ b/pypy/interpreter/test/test_app_main.py
@@ -7,11 +7,8 @@
 from rpython.tool.udir import udir
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 from pypy.conftest import pypydir
-from pypy.module.sys.version import PYPY_VERSION
 from lib_pypy._pypy_interact import irc_header
 
-is_release = PYPY_VERSION[3] == "final"
-
 
 python3 = os.environ.get("PYTHON3", "python3")
 
@@ -21,7 +18,6 @@
                          stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
     return p.stdout.read().rstrip()
 banner = get_banner()
-print repr(banner)
 
 app_main = os.path.join(os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), os.pardir, 'app_main.py')
 app_main = os.path.abspath(app_main)
@@ -255,10 +251,6 @@
         child = self.spawn([])
         child.expect('Python ')   # banner
         child.expect('>>> ')      # prompt
-        if is_release:
-            assert irc_header not in child.before
-        else:
-            assert irc_header in child.before
         child.sendline('[6*7]')
         child.expect(re.escape('[42]'))
         child.sendline('def f(x):')
@@ -278,6 +270,22 @@
         child.sendline("'' in sys.path")
         child.expect("True")
 
+    def test_yes_irc_topic(self, monkeypatch):
+        monkeypatch.setenv('PYPY_IRC_TOPIC', '1')
+        child = self.spawn([])
+        child.expect(irc_header)   # banner
+
+    def test_maybe_irc_topic(self):
+        import sys
+        pypy_version_info = getattr(sys, 'pypy_version_info', sys.version_info)
+        irc_topic = pypy_version_info[3] != 'final'
+        child = self.spawn([])
+        child.expect('>>>')   # banner
+        if irc_topic:
+            assert irc_header in child.before
+        else:    
+            assert irc_header not in child.before
+
     def test_help(self):
         # test that -h prints the usage, including the name of the executable
         # which should be /full/path/to/app_main.py in this case
@@ -1048,6 +1056,7 @@
         # ----------------------------------------
         from pypy.module.sys.version import CPYTHON_VERSION, PYPY_VERSION
         cpy_ver = '%d' % CPYTHON_VERSION[0]
+        from lib_pypy._pypy_interact import irc_header
 
         goal_dir = os.path.dirname(app_main)
         # build a directory hierarchy like which contains both bin/pypy-c and
@@ -1067,6 +1076,7 @@
         self.w_fake_exe = self.space.wrap(str(fake_exe))
         self.w_expected_path = self.space.wrap(expected_path)
         self.w_trunkdir = self.space.wrap(os.path.dirname(pypydir))
+        self.w_is_release = self.space.wrap(PYPY_VERSION[3] == "final")
 
         self.w_tmp_dir = self.space.wrap(tmp_dir)
 
@@ -1136,3 +1146,4 @@
             # assert it did not crash
         finally:
             sys.path[:] = old_sys_path
+    
diff --git a/pypy/module/cpyext/include/patchlevel.h b/pypy/module/cpyext/include/patchlevel.h
--- a/pypy/module/cpyext/include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/pypy/module/cpyext/include/patchlevel.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 #define PY_VERSION		"3.2.5"
 
 /* PyPy version as a string */
-#define PYPY_VERSION "2.3.0-alpha0"
+#define PYPY_VERSION "2.4.0-alpha0"
 
 /* Subversion Revision number of this file (not of the repository).
  * Empty since Mercurial migration. */
diff --git a/pypy/module/fcntl/interp_fcntl.py b/pypy/module/fcntl/interp_fcntl.py
--- a/pypy/module/fcntl/interp_fcntl.py
+++ b/pypy/module/fcntl/interp_fcntl.py
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@
 fcntl_int = external('fcntl', [rffi.INT, rffi.INT, rffi.INT], rffi.INT)
 fcntl_str = external('fcntl', [rffi.INT, rffi.INT, rffi.CCHARP], rffi.INT)
 fcntl_flock = external('fcntl', [rffi.INT, rffi.INT, _flock], rffi.INT)
-ioctl_int = external('ioctl', [rffi.INT, rffi.INT, rffi.INT], rffi.INT)
-ioctl_str = external('ioctl', [rffi.INT, rffi.INT, rffi.CCHARP], rffi.INT)
+ioctl_int = external('ioctl', [rffi.INT, rffi.UINT, rffi.INT], rffi.INT)
+ioctl_str = external('ioctl', [rffi.INT, rffi.UINT, rffi.CCHARP], rffi.INT)
 
 has_flock = cConfig.has_flock
 if has_flock:
diff --git a/pypy/module/fcntl/test/test_fcntl.py b/pypy/module/fcntl/test/test_fcntl.py
--- a/pypy/module/fcntl/test/test_fcntl.py
+++ b/pypy/module/fcntl/test/test_fcntl.py
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
             os.unlink(i)
 
 class AppTestFcntl:
-    spaceconfig = dict(usemodules=('fcntl', 'array', 'struct', 'termios', 'select', 'rctime'))
+    spaceconfig = dict(usemodules=('fcntl', 'array', 'struct', 'termios',
+                                   'select', 'rctime'))
+
     def setup_class(cls):
         tmpprefix = str(udir.ensure('test_fcntl', dir=1).join('tmp_'))
         cls.w_tmp = cls.space.wrap(tmpprefix)
@@ -257,6 +259,31 @@
             os.close(mfd)
             os.close(sfd)
 
+    def test_ioctl_signed_unsigned_code_param(self):
+        import fcntl
+        import os
+        import pty
+        import struct
+        import termios
+
+        mfd, sfd = pty.openpty()
+        try:
+            if termios.TIOCSWINSZ < 0:
+                set_winsz_opcode_maybe_neg = termios.TIOCSWINSZ
+                set_winsz_opcode_pos = termios.TIOCSWINSZ & 0xffffffff
+            else:
+                set_winsz_opcode_pos = termios.TIOCSWINSZ
+                set_winsz_opcode_maybe_neg, = struct.unpack("i",
+                        struct.pack("I", termios.TIOCSWINSZ))
+
+            our_winsz = struct.pack("HHHH",80,25,0,0)
+            # test both with a positive and potentially negative ioctl code
+            new_winsz = fcntl.ioctl(mfd, set_winsz_opcode_pos, our_winsz)
+            new_winsz = fcntl.ioctl(mfd, set_winsz_opcode_maybe_neg, our_winsz)
+        finally:
+            os.close(mfd)
+            os.close(sfd)
+
     def test_large_flag(self):
         import sys
         if any(plat in sys.platform
diff --git a/pypy/module/imp/importing.py b/pypy/module/imp/importing.py
--- a/pypy/module/imp/importing.py
+++ b/pypy/module/imp/importing.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Implementation of the interpreter-level default import logic.
 """
 
-import sys, os, stat, genericpath
+import sys, os, stat
 
 from pypy.interpreter.module import Module
 from pypy.interpreter.gateway import interp2app, unwrap_spec
@@ -528,8 +528,7 @@
 
             path = space.str0_w(w_pathitem)
             filepart = os.path.join(path, partname)
-            # os.path.isdir on win32 is not rpython when pywin32 installed
-            if genericpath.isdir(filepart) and case_ok(filepart):
+            if os.path.isdir(filepart) and case_ok(filepart):
                 initfile = os.path.join(filepart, '__init__')
                 modtype, _, _ = find_modtype(space, initfile)
                 if modtype in (PY_SOURCE, PY_COMPILED):
diff --git a/pypy/module/struct/__init__.py b/pypy/module/struct/__init__.py
--- a/pypy/module/struct/__init__.py
+++ b/pypy/module/struct/__init__.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 
 The variable struct.error is an exception raised on errors."""
 
-    applevel_name = '_struct'
+    applevel_name = "_struct"
 
     interpleveldefs = {
         'error': 'interp_struct.get_error(space)',
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@
         'pack_into': 'interp_struct.pack_into',
         'unpack': 'interp_struct.unpack',
         'unpack_from': 'interp_struct.unpack_from',
-        '_clearcache': 'interp_struct.clearcache',
 
         'Struct': 'interp_struct.W_Struct',
+        '_clearcache': 'interp_struct.clearcache',
     }
 
     appleveldefs = {
diff --git a/pypy/module/struct/interp_struct.py b/pypy/module/struct/interp_struct.py
--- a/pypy/module/struct/interp_struct.py
+++ b/pypy/module/struct/interp_struct.py
@@ -21,11 +21,6 @@
     return space.fromcache(Cache).error
 
 
- at unwrap_spec(format=str)
-def calcsize(space, format):
-    return space.wrap(_calcsize(space, format))
-
-
 def _calcsize(space, format):
     fmtiter = CalcSizeFormatIterator()
     try:
@@ -38,7 +33,11 @@
 
 
 @unwrap_spec(format=str)
-def pack(space, format, args_w):
+def calcsize(space, format):
+    return space.wrap(_calcsize(space, format))
+
+
+def _pack(space, format, args_w):
     if jit.isconstant(format):
         size = _calcsize(space, format)
     else:
@@ -50,13 +49,18 @@
         raise OperationError(space.w_OverflowError, space.wrap(e.msg))
     except StructError, e:
         raise OperationError(get_error(space), space.wrap(e.msg))
-    return space.wrapbytes(fmtiter.result.build())
+    return fmtiter.result.build()
+
+
+ at unwrap_spec(format=str)
+def pack(space, format, args_w):
+    return space.wrapbytes(_pack(space, format, args_w))
 
 
 # XXX inefficient
 @unwrap_spec(format=str, offset=int)
 def pack_into(space, format, w_buffer, offset, args_w):
-    res = pack(space, format, args_w).bytes_w(space)
+    res = _pack(space, format, args_w)
     buf = space.writebuf_w(w_buffer)
     if offset < 0:
         offset += buf.getlength()
@@ -140,3 +144,6 @@
     pack_into=interp2app(W_Struct.descr_pack_into),
     unpack_from=interp2app(W_Struct.descr_unpack_from),
 )
+
+def clearcache(space):
+    """No-op on PyPy"""
diff --git a/pypy/module/sys/version.py b/pypy/module/sys/version.py
--- a/pypy/module/sys/version.py
+++ b/pypy/module/sys/version.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #XXX # sync CPYTHON_VERSION with patchlevel.h, package.py
 CPYTHON_API_VERSION        = 1013   #XXX # sync with include/modsupport.h
 
-PYPY_VERSION               = (2, 3, 0, "alpha", 0)    #XXX # sync patchlevel.h
+PYPY_VERSION               = (2, 4, 0, "alpha", 0)    #XXX # sync patchlevel.h
 
 if platform.name == 'msvc':
     COMPILER_INFO = 'MSC v.%d 32 bit' % (platform.version * 10 + 600)
diff --git a/pypy/objspace/std/bytearrayobject.py b/pypy/objspace/std/bytearrayobject.py
--- a/pypy/objspace/std/bytearrayobject.py
+++ b/pypy/objspace/std/bytearrayobject.py
@@ -158,7 +158,15 @@
         # Good default if there are no replacements.
         buf = StringBuilder(len("bytearray(b'')") + len(s))
 
-        buf.append("bytearray(b'")
+        buf.append("bytearray(b")
+        quote = "'"
+        for c in s:
+            if c == '"':
+                quote = "'"
+                break
+            elif c == "'":
+                quote = '"'
+        buf.append(quote)
 
         for i in range(len(s)):
             c = s[i]
@@ -180,7 +188,8 @@
             else:
                 buf.append(c)
 
-        buf.append("')")
+        buf.append(quote)
+        buf.append(")")
 
         return space.wrap(buf.build())
 
diff --git a/pypy/objspace/std/complextype.py b/pypy/objspace/std/complextype.py
--- a/pypy/objspace/std/complextype.py
+++ b/pypy/objspace/std/complextype.py
@@ -39,22 +39,20 @@
         # ignore whitespace after bracket
         while i < slen and s[i] == ' ':
             i += 1
+        while slen > 0 and s[slen-1] == ' ':
+            slen -= 1
 
     # extract first number
     realstart = i
     pc = s[i]
     while i < slen and s[i] != ' ':
-        if s[i] in ('+','-') and pc not in ('e','E') and i != realstart:
+        if s[i] in ('+', '-') and pc not in ('e', 'E') and i != realstart:
             break
         pc = s[i]
         i += 1
 
     realstop = i
 
-    # ignore whitespace
-    while i < slen and s[i] == ' ':
-        i += 1
-
     # return appropriate strings is only one number is there
     if i >= slen:
         newstop = realstop - 1
@@ -76,20 +74,17 @@
     # find sign for imaginary part
     if s[i] == '-' or s[i] == '+':
         imagsign = s[i]
-    if imagsign == ' ':
+    else:
         raise ValueError
 
-    i+=1
-    # whitespace
-    while i < slen and s[i] == ' ':
-        i += 1
+    i += 1
     if i >= slen:
         raise ValueError
 
     imagstart = i
     pc = s[i]
     while i < slen and s[i] != ' ':
-        if s[i] in ('+','-') and pc not in ('e','E'):
+        if s[i] in ('+', '-') and pc not in ('e', 'E'):
             break
         pc = s[i]
         i += 1
@@ -97,14 +92,12 @@
     imagstop = i - 1
     if imagstop < 0:
         raise ValueError
-    if s[imagstop] not in ('j','J'):
+    if s[imagstop] not in ('j', 'J'):
         raise ValueError
     if imagstop < imagstart:
         raise ValueError
 
-    while i<slen and s[i] == ' ':
-        i += 1
-    if i <  slen:
+    if i < slen:
         raise ValueError
 
     realpart = s[realstart:realstop]
diff --git a/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_boolobject.py b/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_boolobject.py
--- a/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_boolobject.py
+++ b/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_boolobject.py
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
-
-
-
 class TestW_BoolObject:
-
     def setup_method(self,method):
         self.true = self.space.w_True
         self.false = self.space.w_False
@@ -29,6 +25,7 @@
     def test_rbigint_w(self):
         assert self.space.bigint_w(self.true)._digits == [1]
 
+
 class AppTestAppBoolTest:
     def test_bool_callable(self):
         assert True == bool(1)
diff --git a/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_bytearrayobject.py b/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_bytearrayobject.py
--- a/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_bytearrayobject.py
+++ b/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_bytearrayobject.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from pypy import conftest
 
+
 class AppTestBytesArray:
     def setup_class(cls):
         cls.w_runappdirect = cls.space.wrap(conftest.option.runappdirect)
@@ -49,12 +50,15 @@
     def test_repr(self):
         assert repr(bytearray()) == "bytearray(b'')"
         assert repr(bytearray(b'test')) == "bytearray(b'test')"
-        assert repr(bytearray(b"d'oh")) == r"bytearray(b'd\'oh')"
+        assert repr(bytearray(b"d'oh")) == r'bytearray(b"d\'oh")'
+        assert repr(bytearray(b'd"oh')) == 'bytearray(b\'d"oh\')'
+        assert repr(bytearray(b'd"\'oh')) == 'bytearray(b\'d"\\\'oh\')'
+        assert repr(bytearray(b'd\'"oh')) == 'bytearray(b\'d\\\'"oh\')'
 
     def test_str(self):
         assert str(bytearray()) == "bytearray(b'')"
         assert str(bytearray(b'test')) == "bytearray(b'test')"
-        assert str(bytearray(b"d'oh")) == r"bytearray(b'd\'oh')"
+        assert str(bytearray(b"d'oh")) == r'bytearray(b"d\'oh")'
 
     def test_getitem(self):
         b = bytearray(b'test')
diff --git a/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_complexobject.py b/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_complexobject.py
--- a/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_complexobject.py
+++ b/pypy/objspace/std/test/test_complexobject.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
 
 
 class AppTestAppComplexTest:
-    spaceconfig = dict(usemodules=['binascii', 'rctime', 'unicodedata'])
+    spaceconfig = {"usemodules": ["binascii", "rctime", "unicodedata"]}
 
     def w_check_div(self, x, y):
         """Compute complex z=x*y, and check that z/x==y and z/y==x."""
@@ -319,6 +319,8 @@
         assert self.almost_equal(complex("-1"), -1)
         assert self.almost_equal(complex("+1"), +1)
         assert self.almost_equal(complex(" ( +3.14-6J ) "), 3.14-6j)
+        exc = raises(ValueError, complex, " ( +3.14- 6J ) ")
+        assert str(exc.value) == "complex() arg is a malformed string"
 
         class complex2(complex):
             pass
@@ -379,10 +381,10 @@
     def test_constructor_unicode(self):
         b1 = '\N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD DIGIT ONE}' # 𝟏
         b2 = '\N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD DIGIT TWO}' # 𝟐
-        s = '{0} + {1}j'.format(b1, b2)
+        s = '{0}+{1}j'.format(b1, b2)
         assert complex(s) == 1+2j
         assert complex('\N{EM SPACE}(\N{EN SPACE}1+1j ) ') == 1+1j
-        
+
     def test___complex___returning_non_complex(self):
         import cmath
         class Obj(object):
@@ -399,7 +401,7 @@
         #
         assert cmath.polar(1) == (1.0, 0.0)
         raises(TypeError, "cmath.polar(Obj(1))")
-        
+
     def test_hash(self):
         for x in range(-30, 30):
             assert hash(x) == hash(complex(x, 0))
@@ -417,7 +419,9 @@
             pass
         assert j(100 + 0j) == 100 + 0j
         assert isinstance(j(100), j)
-        assert j("100 + 0j") == 100 + 0j
+        assert j("100+0j") == 100 + 0j
+        exc = raises(ValueError, j, "100 + 0j")
+        assert str(exc.value) == "complex() arg is a malformed string"
         x = j(1+0j)
         x.foo = 42
         assert x.foo == 42
diff --git a/pypy/tool/release/force-builds.py b/pypy/tool/release/force-builds.py
--- a/pypy/tool/release/force-builds.py
+++ b/pypy/tool/release/force-builds.py
@@ -20,11 +20,12 @@
     'own-linux-x86-32',
     'own-linux-x86-64',
     'own-linux-armhf',
+    'own-win-x86-32',
 #    'own-macosx-x86-32',
 #    'pypy-c-app-level-linux-x86-32',
 #    'pypy-c-app-level-linux-x86-64',
 #    'pypy-c-stackless-app-level-linux-x86-32',
-    'pypy-c-app-level-win-x86-32',
+#    'pypy-c-app-level-win-x86-32',
     'pypy-c-jit-linux-x86-32',
     'pypy-c-jit-linux-x86-64',
     'pypy-c-jit-macosx-x86-64',
diff --git a/pypy/tool/release/package.py b/pypy/tool/release/package.py
--- a/pypy/tool/release/package.py
+++ b/pypy/tool/release/package.py
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
     if not sys.platform == 'win32':
         subprocess.check_call([str(pypy_c), '-c', 'import _curses'])
         subprocess.check_call([str(pypy_c), '-c', 'import syslog'])
+        subprocess.check_call([str(pypy_c), '-c', 'import gdbm'])
     if not withouttk:
         try:
             subprocess.check_call([str(pypy_c), '-c', 'import _tkinter'])
diff --git a/rpython/annotator/annrpython.py b/rpython/annotator/annrpython.py
--- a/rpython/annotator/annrpython.py
+++ b/rpython/annotator/annrpython.py
@@ -397,16 +397,15 @@
         return repr(graph) + blk + opid
 
     def flowin(self, graph, block):
-        #print 'Flowing', block, [self.binding(a) for a in block.inputargs]
         try:
-            for i in range(len(block.operations)):
+            for i, op in enumerate(block.operations):
+                self.bookkeeper.enter((graph, block, i))
                 try:
-                    self.bookkeeper.enter((graph, block, i))
-                    self.consider_op(block, i)
+                    self.consider_op(op)
                 finally:
                     self.bookkeeper.leave()
 
-        except BlockedInference, e:
+        except BlockedInference as e:
             if (e.op is block.operations[-1] and
                 block.exitswitch == c_last_exception):
                 # this is the case where the last operation of the block will
@@ -428,11 +427,16 @@
                 # other cases are problematic (but will hopefully be solved
                 # later by reflowing).  Throw the BlockedInference up to
                 # processblock().
+                e.opindex = i
                 raise
 
         except annmodel.HarmlesslyBlocked:
             return
 
+        except annmodel.AnnotatorError as e: # note that UnionError is a subclass
+            e.source = gather_error(self, graph, block, i)
+            raise
+
         else:
             # dead code removal: don't follow all exits if the exitswitch
             # is known
@@ -443,11 +447,6 @@
                     exits = [link for link in exits
                                   if link.exitcase == s_exitswitch.const]
 
-        # mapping (exitcase, variable) -> s_annotation
-        # that can be attached to booleans, exitswitches
-        knowntypedata = getattr(self.bindings.get(block.exitswitch),
-                                "knowntypedata", {})
-
         # filter out those exceptions which cannot
         # occour for this specific, typed operation.
         if block.exitswitch == c_last_exception:
@@ -480,93 +479,12 @@
                         exits.append(link)
                         candidates = [c for c in candidates if c not in covered]
 
+        # mapping (exitcase, variable) -> s_annotation
+        # that can be attached to booleans, exitswitches
+        knowntypedata = getattr(self.bindings.get(block.exitswitch),
+                                "knowntypedata", {})
         for link in exits:
-            in_except_block = False
-
-            last_exception_var = link.last_exception # may be None for non-exception link
-            last_exc_value_var = link.last_exc_value # may be None for non-exception link
-
-            if isinstance(link.exitcase, (types.ClassType, type)) \
-                   and issubclass(link.exitcase, py.builtin.BaseException):
-                assert last_exception_var and last_exc_value_var
-                last_exc_value_object = self.bookkeeper.valueoftype(link.exitcase)
-                last_exception_object = annmodel.SomeType()
-                if isinstance(last_exception_var, Constant):
-                    last_exception_object.const = last_exception_var.value
-                last_exception_object.is_type_of = [last_exc_value_var]
-
-                if isinstance(last_exception_var, Variable):
-                    self.setbinding(last_exception_var, last_exception_object)
-                if isinstance(last_exc_value_var, Variable):
-                    self.setbinding(last_exc_value_var, last_exc_value_object)
-
-                last_exception_object = annmodel.SomeType()
-                if isinstance(last_exception_var, Constant):
-                    last_exception_object.const = last_exception_var.value
-                #if link.exitcase is Exception:
-                #    last_exc_value_object = annmodel.SomeObject()
-                #else:
-                last_exc_value_vars = []
-                in_except_block = True
-
-            ignore_link = False
-            cells = []
-            renaming = {}
-            for a,v in zip(link.args,link.target.inputargs):
-                renaming.setdefault(a, []).append(v)
-            for a,v in zip(link.args,link.target.inputargs):
-                if a == last_exception_var:
-                    assert in_except_block
-                    cells.append(last_exception_object)
-                elif a == last_exc_value_var:
-                    assert in_except_block
-                    cells.append(last_exc_value_object)
-                    last_exc_value_vars.append(v)
-                else:
-                    cell = self.binding(a)
-                    if (link.exitcase, a) in knowntypedata:
-                        knownvarvalue = knowntypedata[(link.exitcase, a)]
-                        cell = pair(cell, knownvarvalue).improve()
-                        # ignore links that try to pass impossible values
-                        if cell == annmodel.s_ImpossibleValue:
-                            ignore_link = True
-
-                    if hasattr(cell,'is_type_of'):
-                        renamed_is_type_of = []
-                        for v in cell.is_type_of:
-                            new_vs = renaming.get(v,[])
-                            renamed_is_type_of += new_vs
-                        assert cell.knowntype is type
-                        newcell = annmodel.SomeType()
-                        if cell.is_constant():
-                            newcell.const = cell.const
-                        cell = newcell
-                        cell.is_type_of = renamed_is_type_of
-
-                    if hasattr(cell, 'knowntypedata'):
-                        renamed_knowntypedata = {}
-                        for (value, v), s in cell.knowntypedata.items():
-                            new_vs = renaming.get(v, [])
-                            for new_v in new_vs:
-                                renamed_knowntypedata[value, new_v] = s
-                        assert isinstance(cell, annmodel.SomeBool)
-                        newcell = annmodel.SomeBool()
-                        if cell.is_constant():
-                            newcell.const = cell.const
-                        cell = newcell
-                        cell.set_knowntypedata(renamed_knowntypedata)
-
-                    cells.append(cell)
-
-            if ignore_link:
-                continue
-
-            if in_except_block:
-                last_exception_object.is_type_of = last_exc_value_vars
-
-            self.links_followed[link] = True
-            self.addpendingblock(graph, link.target, cells)
-
+            self.follow_link(graph, link, knowntypedata)
         if block in self.notify:
             # reflow from certain positions when this block is done
             for callback in self.notify[block]:
@@ -575,39 +493,114 @@
                 else:
                     callback()
 
+    def follow_link(self, graph, link, knowntypedata):
+        in_except_block = False
+        last_exception_var = link.last_exception  # may be None for non-exception link
+        last_exc_value_var = link.last_exc_value  # may be None for non-exception link
+
+        if isinstance(link.exitcase, (types.ClassType, type)) \
+                and issubclass(link.exitcase, py.builtin.BaseException):
+            assert last_exception_var and last_exc_value_var
+            last_exc_value_object = self.bookkeeper.valueoftype(link.exitcase)
+            last_exception_object = annmodel.SomeType()
+            if isinstance(last_exception_var, Constant):
+                last_exception_object.const = last_exception_var.value
+            last_exception_object.is_type_of = [last_exc_value_var]
+
+            if isinstance(last_exception_var, Variable):
+                self.setbinding(last_exception_var, last_exception_object)
+            if isinstance(last_exc_value_var, Variable):
+                self.setbinding(last_exc_value_var, last_exc_value_object)
+
+            last_exception_object = annmodel.SomeType()
+            if isinstance(last_exception_var, Constant):
+                last_exception_object.const = last_exception_var.value
+            #if link.exitcase is Exception:
+            #    last_exc_value_object = annmodel.SomeObject()
+            #else:
+            last_exc_value_vars = []
+            in_except_block = True
+
+        ignore_link = False
+        cells = []
+        renaming = {}
+        for a, v in zip(link.args, link.target.inputargs):
+            renaming.setdefault(a, []).append(v)
+        for a, v in zip(link.args, link.target.inputargs):
+            if a == last_exception_var:
+                assert in_except_block
+                cells.append(last_exception_object)
+            elif a == last_exc_value_var:
+                assert in_except_block
+                cells.append(last_exc_value_object)
+                last_exc_value_vars.append(v)
+            else:
+                cell = self.binding(a)
+                if (link.exitcase, a) in knowntypedata:
+                    knownvarvalue = knowntypedata[(link.exitcase, a)]
+                    cell = pair(cell, knownvarvalue).improve()
+                    # ignore links that try to pass impossible values
+                    if cell == annmodel.s_ImpossibleValue:
+                        ignore_link = True
+
+                if hasattr(cell,'is_type_of'):
+                    renamed_is_type_of = []


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