[issue40170] [C API] Make PyTypeObject structure an opaque structure in the public C API

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <vstinner at python.org> added the comment:

I searched for "_PyObject_DebugMallocStats" in top 5000 PyPI projects. There is a single project using it: guppy3.

Extract of guppy3 src/heapy/xmemstats.c:

...
    dlptr__PyObject_DebugMallocStats = addr_of_symbol("_PyObject_DebugMallocStats");
...
static PyObject *
hp_xmemstats(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{
    if (dlptr__PyObject_DebugMallocStats) {
        fprintf(stderr, "======================================================================\n");
        fprintf(stderr, "Output from _PyObject_DebugMallocStats()\n\n");
        dlptr__PyObject_DebugMallocStats(stderr);
    }
    ...
}

addr_of_symbol() is implemented with dlsym() or GetModuleHandle(NULL)+GetProcAddress(): it searchs for the symbol in the current process.

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