[pypy-commit] cffi default: Document the GIL release.

arigo noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
Tue Jul 31 23:16:06 CEST 2012


Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch: 
Changeset: r752:2dd19cad0ee3
Date: 2012-07-31 23:15 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/2dd19cad0ee3/

Log:	Document the GIL release.

diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
--- a/doc/source/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -929,7 +929,7 @@
 |  union        |                        |                  | and read/write |
 |               |                        |                  | struct fields  |
 +---------------+------------------------+                  +----------------+
-| function      | same as pointers       |                  | call           |
+| function      | same as pointers       |                  | call (**)      |
 | pointers      |                        |                  |                |
 +---------------+------------------------+------------------+----------------+
 |  arrays       | a list or tuple of     | a <cdata>        | len(), iter(), |
@@ -974,6 +974,9 @@
 actually modify the array of characters passed in, and so passes directly
 a pointer inside the Python string object.
 
+.. versionchaned:: 0.3
+   (**) C function calls are now done with the GIL released.
+
 
 Reference: verifier
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