[Python-Dev] cpython (3.6): replace usage of Py_VA_COPY with the (C99) standard va_copy

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016, at 04:44, Victor Stinner wrote:
> 2016-09-22 8:02 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>:
> > Just dump the compat macros in Python 4.0 I think.
> 
> Please don't. Python 3 was so painful because we decided to make
> millions of tiny backward incompatible changes. To have a smooth
> Python 4.0 release, we should only remove things which were already
> deprecated since at least 2 cycles, and well documented as deprecated.

I'm being flippant here because of the triviality of the change. Anyone
using Py_VA_COPY or Py_MEMCPY can fix their code in a backwards and
forwards compatible manner in 7 seconds with a sed command.