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| author | Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com> | 2019-06-15 03:24:41 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-06-15 03:24:41 +0200 |
| commit | 7efc526e5cfb929a79c192ac2dcf7eb78d3a4401 (patch) | |
| tree | cf093da9804cd362d85792cd1eb749bb964d2edc /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 749e73065dea1cc3a6d39a830380a2c124f568c2 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-7efc526e5cfb929a79c192ac2dcf7eb78d3a4401.tar.gz | |
bpo-36707: Document "m" removal from sys.abiflags (GH-14090)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index b63bcef5de..cc3fb76e9c 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -955,6 +955,22 @@ Optimizations Build and C API Changes ======================= +* Default :data:`sys.abiflags` became an empty string: the ``m`` flag for + pymalloc became useless (builds with and without pymalloc are ABI compatible) + and so has been removed. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`36707`.) + + Example of changes: + + * Only ``python3.8`` program is installed, ``python3.8m`` program is gone. + * Only ``python3.8-config`` script is installed, ``python3.8m-config`` script + is gone. + * The ``m`` flag has been removed from the suffix of dynamic library + filenames: extension modules in the standard library as well as those + produced and installed by third-party packages, like those downloaded from + PyPI. On Linux, for example, the Python 3.7 suffix + ``.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so`` became + ``.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so`` in Python 3.8. + * The header files have been reorganized to better separate the different kinds of APIs: |