[Python-Dev] Stackless Python

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon May 31 21:37:57 EDT 2004


Martin:

> [In addition, the approach taken by Stackless 3.0 is probably
> questionable: for example, it may be that C++ exception handling
> stops working in Stackless.]

Indeed. The last time this was discussed, I seem to remember Stackless
had trouble with C code that passed pointers to local variables as
parameters. Since this is a perfectly legitimate thing to do in C, if
Stackless can't handle it, then it's fundamentally flawed.

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