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authorArmin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>2017-03-21 11:41:11 +0100
committerArmin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>2017-03-21 11:41:11 +0100
commit4beadfd5ecdf23efdbe41c1e1df4a957cc6de573 (patch)
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parent057c68096176e042bd159c4c6bdf7e2f60629bb6 (diff)
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update the whatsnew
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@@ -9,18 +9,16 @@ v1.10
* Issue #295: use calloc() directly instead of
PyObject_Malloc()+memset() to handle ffi.new() with a default
allocator. Speeds up ``ffi.new(large-array)`` where most of the time
- you never touch most of the array. (But avoid doing that too often:
- on 32-bit PyPy it will quickly exhaust the address space. If possible,
- use instead explicit calls to calloc() and free().)
+ you never touch most of the array.
* Some OS/X build fixes ("only with Xcode but without CLT").
* Improve a couple of error messages: when getting mismatched versions
of cffi and its backend; and when calling functions which cannot be
called with libffi because an argument is a struct that is "too
- complicated" (not a struct *pointer*).
+ complicated" (and not a struct *pointer*, which always works).
-* Add support for some obscure compilers (non-msvc, non-gcc, non-icc,
+* Add support for some unusual compilers (non-msvc, non-gcc, non-icc,
non-clang)
* Implemented the remaining cases for ``ffi.from_buffer``. Now all
@@ -33,15 +31,15 @@ v1.10
* The C type ``_Bool`` or ``bool`` now converts to a Python boolean
when reading, instead of the content of the byte as an integer. The
- change here is mostly what occurs if the byte happens to contain a
+ potential incompatibility here is what occurs if the byte contains a
value different from 0 and 1. Previously, it would just return it;
with this change, CFFI raises an exception in this case. But this
case means "undefined behavior" in C; if you really have to interface
- with a library relying on this, don't use ``_Bool`` in the CFFI side.
+ with a library relying on this, don't use ``bool`` in the CFFI side.
Also, it is still valid to use a byte string as initializer for a
- ``_Bool[]``, but now it must only contain ``\x00`` or ``\x01``. As an
- aside, ``ffi.string()`` no longer works on ``_Bool[]`` (but it never
- made much sense, as this function stops on the first zero).
+ ``bool[]``, but now it must only contain ``\x00`` or ``\x01``. As an
+ aside, ``ffi.string()`` no longer works on ``bool[]`` (but it never
+ made much sense, as this function stops at the first zero).
* ``ffi.buffer`` is now the name of cffi's buffer type, and
``ffi.buffer()`` works like before but is the constructor of that type.
@@ -61,6 +59,11 @@ v1.10
"memory pressure", causing the GC to run too infrequently if you call
``ffi.new()`` very often and/or with large arrays. Fixed in PyPy 5.7.
+* Support in ``ffi.cdef()`` for numeric expressions with ``+`` or
+ ``-``. Assumes that there is no overflow; it should be fixed first
+ before we add more general support for arbitrary arithmetic on
+ constants.
+
v1.9
====