ctypes instances no longer have the internal and undocumented
'_as_parameter_' attribute which was used to adapt them to foreign
function calls; this mechanism is replaced by a function pointer in
the type's stgdict.
In the 'from_param' class methods, try the _as_parameter_ attribute if
other conversions are not possible.
This makes the documented _as_parameter_ mechanism work as intended.
Change the ctypes version number to 1.0.1.
storage before converting the result to C data. See the comment in
the code for details.
Provide a better context for errors when the conversion of a callback
function's result cannot be converted.
Also fix a few memory leaks in other failure scenarios.
It seems that if b_objects == Py_None, we will have an extra ref to
b_objects. Add XXX comment so hopefully someone documents why the
else isn't necessary or adds it in.
Reported by Klocwork #20
Add a new function uses_seh() to the _ctypes extension module. This
will return True if Windows Structured Exception handling (SEH) is
used when calling functions, False otherwise.
of bugs in that port. The most annoying ones were due to some subtle differences
between the document ABI and the actual implementation :-(
(there are no python unittests that fail without this patch, but without it
some of libffi's unittests fail).
will return True if Windows Structured Exception handling (SEH) is
used when calling functions, False otherwise.
Currently, only MSVC supports SEH.
Fix the test so that it doesn't crash when run with MingW compiled
_ctypes. Note that two tests are still failing when mingw is used, I
suspect structure layout differences and function calling conventions
between MSVC and MingW.
It seems that the definition of '__attribute__(x)' was responsible for
the compiler ignoring the '__fastcall' attribute on the
ffi_closure_SYSV function in libffi_msvc/ffi.c, took me quite some
time to figure this out.
Summary of changes:
- support for 'variable sized' data
- support for anonymous structure/union fields
- fix severe bug with certain arrays or structures containing more than 256 fields
endian machines. Should fix the remaininf failure in the PPC64
Debian buildbot.
Thanks to Matthias Klose for providing access to a machine to debug
and test this.
structmember typecode for Py_ssize_t fields. This should fix some of
the errors on the PPC64 debian machine (64-bit, big endian).
Assigning to readonly fields now raises AttributeError instead of
TypeError, so the testcase has to be changed as well.