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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-05-20 22:25:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-05-20 22:25:32 +0000 |
| commit | adf0e437cb15791c9bbfd99929388f3ff8e07e3a (patch) | |
| tree | 5435d878f2e985f819c7a6bdafbf4ed2c35de61b /Python/structmember.c | |
| parent | 885215c3da9b70f535acbea2c15ccebe1705da04 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-adf0e437cb15791c9bbfd99929388f3ff8e07e3a.tar.gz | |
Trivial little change: when setting a member to an object, hold the
old value in a temporary and XDECREF it only after then new value has
been set. This prevents the (unlikely) case where the destructor of
the member uses the containing object -- it would find it in an
undefined state.
Diffstat (limited to 'Python/structmember.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | Python/structmember.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Python/structmember.c b/Python/structmember.c index 02464c611f..ba0772008a 100644 --- a/Python/structmember.c +++ b/Python/structmember.c @@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ PyMember_Set(addr, mlist, name, v) PyObject *v; { struct memberlist *l; + PyObject *oldv; for (l = mlist; l->name != NULL; l++) { if (strcmp(l->name, name) == 0) { @@ -253,9 +254,10 @@ PyMember_Set(addr, mlist, name, v) } break; case T_OBJECT: - Py_XDECREF(*(PyObject **)addr); Py_XINCREF(v); + oldv = *(PyObject **)addr; *(PyObject **)addr = v; + Py_XDECREF(oldv); break; case T_CHAR: if (PyString_Check(v) && |