Bug in Python/C API?
David Bolen
db3l at fitlinxx.com
Mon Sep 11 17:30:04 EDT 2000
"Rainer Deyke" <root at rainerdeyke.com> writes:
> This sort of problem could be prevented if Py_XDECREF was defined like this:
>
> #define Py_XDECREF(A) if (tmp = (A)) Py_DECREF(A)
>
> where tmp is a global PyObject *.
Except that among other arguments, doing that wouldn't be thread-safe.
It's just better to always assume that you shouldn't use side-effect
expressions in macros unless you're very confident as to how that
macro is defined (and probably not even then :-)).
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