[Python-Dev] PEP 0404 and VS 2010

[Nick Coghlan]

On 21 November 2013 22:51, Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:
> Am 21.11.2013 12:31, schrieb martin at v.loewis.de:
>> That sounds doable. If we provided a "python2.dll", would could make the
>> header files using the "restricted API" by default if Python is compiled
>> with VS 2010. Extension builders could then regularly compile their
>> extensions with VS 2010, or VS 2013, despite Python itself being linked
>> with the VS 2008 CRT.
>
> What about the CAPI functions like PyFile_FromFile() and PyFile_AsFile()
> that take a FILE* as argument? Or functions like PyErr_SetFromErrno()
> that use the errno thread local variable? These function will either
> crash or not work properly with mixed CRTs. Every CRT has its own errno
> TLS, so Python won't see the errno of a CRT100 function like open(2),
> see http://bugs.python.org/issue15883 .
>
> I don't understand how a stable Python ABI solves the issue of unstable
> CRT ABIs. Are you planning to address these issues?

The stable ABI excludes all the CRT dependent APIs - that is exactly
the subset of the stable ABI restrictions that I am suggesting we
should backport to 2.7.7 rather than Stackless making a 2.8 release
just to update to a backwards incompatible C runtime on Windows.

Cheers,
Nick.

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