[Python-Dev] What do PyAPI_FUNC & PyAPI_DATA mean?

[Benjamin Peterson]

2012/4/23 Mark Shannon <mark at hotpy.org>:
> Many (most?) of the function declarations in the CPython header files
> are annotated with the PyAPI_FUNC declaration.
> Similarly for data declarations and PyAPI_DATA
>
> What do they mean, exactly? From the name I would expect that they are a way
> of declaring a function or datum to be part of the API, but their usage
> seems to be more to do with linkage.

They define linkage on Windows. I actually don't know if they should
be applied to internal functions.



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Regards,
Benjamin