[pypy-commit] cffi default: Document the changes
arigo
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Thu Feb 7 20:03:52 CET 2013
Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch:
Changeset: r1122:a44545d70be4
Date: 2013-01-10 10:03 +0100
http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/a44545d70be4/
Log: Document the changes
diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
--- a/doc/source/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -1097,6 +1097,12 @@
- ``len(buf), buf[index], buf[index] = newchar``: access as a sequence
of characters.
+.. versionchanged:: 0.5
+ The buffer object returned by ``ffi.buffer(cdata)`` keeps alive the
+ ``cdata`` object: if it was originally an owning cdata, then its
+ owned memory will not be freed as long as the buffer is alive.
+ Moreover buffer objects now support weakrefs to them.
+
``ffi.typeof("C type" or cdata object)``: return an object of type
``<ctype>`` corresponding to the parsed string, or to the C type of the
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