[issue24915] Profile Guided Optimization active by-default

2015-08-24 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: My initial reaction is that the default should be optimized for short build times. I would not want to type "disable-profile-opt" every time I'm running the tests. -- nosy: +skrah ___ Python

[issue24915] Profile Guided Optimization active by-default

2015-08-24 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: I see that your latest patch leaves PGO as an option, so please ignore my previous comment. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue24

[issue24921] Operator precedence table in 5.15 should be highest to lowest precedence

2015-08-24 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Agreed. I'm not sure though what the reason for this convention is: The flow in Grammar/Grammar (low to high) feels quite natural to me. That said, I'm +-0 on the change. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bu

[issue24913] newblock() Uninitialized Variable

2015-08-25 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: I guess that in the test case the stop parameter is set to 4 in deque_index(), but it should be clamped to 3. -- nosy: +skrah ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue24

[issue24974] ICC on Windows 8.1: _decimal fails to compile with default fp model

2015-09-01 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: On Linux ICC has something like "fast-math" by default. The situation is a bit annoying: On Unix ICC defines __GNUC__, but does not really have all the features. Here ICC defines _MSC_VER, but does not behave like cl.exe. [I know it's a hard prob

[issue24974] ICC on Windows 8.1: _decimal fails to compile with default fp model

2015-09-01 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Steve: What do you mean by "global option"? The C99 standard says that FENV_ACCESS (if set), is active until the end of the translation unit (here: mpdecimal.c). -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.o

[issue24974] ICC on Windows 8.1: _decimal fails to compile with default fp model

2015-09-01 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: If "#pragma float_control(precise, push)" is exactly the MSVC default then I'm fine with putting it on top of FENV_ACCESS. There's nothing speed sensitive going on here: In the 32-bit build the x87 FPU is used for modular multiplication of in

[issue24974] ICC on Windows 8.1: _decimal fails to compile with default fp model

2015-09-02 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Also note that ICC <= 11.0 did not handle __GNUC__ inline asm correctly, see the comment: Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/umodarith.h:391 I've disabled asm for Linux/ICC in setup.py. I don't know how the situation is with MASM inline asm, but I'd

[issue24974] ICC on Windows 8.1: _decimal fails to compile with default fp model

2015-09-03 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Are you sure that you always tested the 32-bit build, also with ICC 15.0? -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue24

[issue24974] ICC on Windows 8.1: _decimal fails to compile with default fp model

2015-09-03 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Hmm, I don't see a 32-bit ICC buildbot. This problem can only occur on 32-bit with -DPPRO defined. Please go ahead and commit the patch. The inline asm miscompilation problem I mentioned earlier was solved in 12.0 (I think), so let's just assume

[issue24974] ICC on Windows 8.1: _decimal fails to compile with default fp model

2015-09-03 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: We can always blame any fallout on ICC. ;) -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue24974> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailin

[issue17582] xml.etree.ElementTree does not preserve whitespaces in attributes

2015-09-06 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel added the comment: Patch and test look correct. They fix a bug that produces incorrect output, so I vote for backporting them. Most code won't see the difference as whitespace control characters are rare in attribute values. And code that uses them will benefit from correc

[issue24915] Profile Guided Optimization improvements (better training, llvm support, etc)

2015-09-06 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel added the comment: > The only thing that was a bit mystifying were the errors during the > initial profile run. There is so much that floats by in the terminal > window that I completely missed the warnings about errors during the > test run not being anything to worry

[issue24915] Profile Guided Optimization improvements (better training, llvm support, etc)

2015-09-07 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: I don't think we should provide any performance guarantees in the Makefile. +1 for not special-casing x86 (does it include amd64?). As I understood, Antoine was not talking about a unified patch but about applying the 3.6 patch to 3.5 right

[issue24915] Profile Guided Optimization improvements (better training, llvm support, etc)

2015-09-07 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Just (hopefully) for extra clarity: As you mentioned, the 3.6 patch is perfect for 3.5, too. The reason why 3.5 was brought up is to ask Larry, our release manager, to allow it already for 3.5. Technically it's an enhancement/new feature, but practically

[issue24999] Segfault in test_re.test_sre_character_class_literals() when Python is compiled by ICC

2015-09-07 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: The buildbot segfaults all over the place, also in test_tokenize and test_json: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86-64%20Windows%20Server%202012R2%20ICC%203.x/builds/89/steps/test/logs/stdio Running the tests under the VS debugger is probably the fastest

[issue24999] Segfault in test_re.test_sre_character_class_literals() when Python is compiled by ICC

2015-09-08 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Yes, according to C99 the shift is undefined: 6.5.7: "If the value of the right operand is negative or is greater than or equal to the width of the promoted left operand, the behavior is undefined." --

[issue25027] Python 3.5.0rc3 on Windows can not load more than 127 C extension modules

2015-09-08 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: If the scientific stack is unusable, I think this should be a release blocker. -- nosy: +skrah priority: normal -> release blocker ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue25027] Python 3.5.0rc3 on Windows can not load more than 127 C extension modules

2015-09-08 Thread Stefan Krah
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[issue24999] Segfault in test_re.test_sre_character_class_literals() when Python is compiled by ICC

2015-09-08 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Perhaps the stack overflow hypothesis applies here, too. You could try changing Py_DEFAULT_RECURSION_LIMIT in ceval.c to lower values. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue24

[issue25027] Python 3.5.0rc3 on Windows can not load more than 127 C extension modules

2015-09-08 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Is Python-core built with /MD? I cannot see the flags in the buildbot logs. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25

[issue25027] Python 3.5.0rc3 on Windows can not load more than 127 C extension modules

2015-09-08 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: It seems to be /MTd. Sorry for the noise (and yay! for horizontal scrolling :). -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25

[issue25027] Python 3.5.0rc3 on Windows can not load more than 127 C extension modules

2015-09-08 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: The reason I asked: We had issues where extension modules linked against a different CRT had isolated locale settings from the interpreter, i.e., changes made by the module would not be seen by the interpreter. I don't know if this is still an issue with th

[issue24999] Segfault in test_re.test_sre_character_class_literals() when Python is compiled by ICC

2015-09-08 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Visual studio apparently has the option /F to set the stack size. Maybe ICC has one, too. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue24

[issue24999] Segfault in test_re.test_sre_character_class_literals() when Python is compiled by ICC

2015-09-09 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Thanks, I've contacted Robert. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue24999> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue25070] Python 2.6 - Python 3.4 allows unparenthesized generator with *args, **kw, forbidden in 3.5

2015-09-11 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: According to the human readable grammar in the docs https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#calls I'd say this was a bug that is now fixed in 3.5. The call should either take a single unparenthesized generator expression or an argument_list (

[issue25079] Tokenize generates NL instead of NEWLINE for comments

2015-09-12 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: See: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#blank-lines -- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -Interpreter Core nosy: +docs@python, skrah resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open ->

[issue25070] Python 2.6 - Python 3.4 allows unparenthesized generator with *args, **kw, forbidden in 3.5

2015-09-12 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: I think the issue can be closed (after updating "what's new"). Even if we wanted to keep backwards compatibility, it's too late now. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bug

[issue25087] Type variable substitution in type instances

2015-09-13 Thread Stefan Krah
New submission from Stefan Krah: If a type scheme is instantiated, should the type variables in the class body be substituted? This is an example (typed by hand on a locked down Windows machine, may contain errors): alpha = TypeVar('alpha') beta = TypeVar('beta') class A

[issue25082] Editing What's New In Python 3.5

2015-09-13 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel added the comment: Could I get a little note in the collections.abc section that the new ABCs "Generator", "Coroutine" and "Awaitable" are available as backports in the "backports_abc" package on PyPI? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/backpo

[issue25082] Editing What's New In Python 3.5

2015-09-13 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel added the comment: Thanks, Yury! -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25082> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue25092] Regression: test_datetime fails on 3.5, Win 7, works on 3.4

2015-09-14 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Yes, errno should always be cleared before use (in C99 at least, not sure what the crt does). -- nosy: +skrah ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25

[issue25092] Regression: test_datetime fails on 3.5, Win 7, works on 3.4

2015-09-14 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Clearing is easy: errno = 0; :) C library functions are not supposed to set errno to 0 by themselves (C99: paragraph 7.5). -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25

[issue25092] Regression: test_datetime fails on 3.5, Win 7, works on 3.4

2015-09-14 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Steve, sorry if I misunderstand you: My point (and eryksun's) was that errno is currently not cleared before the call to format_time() in Modules/timemodule.c:657 I didn't look at this issue in depth, just pointing out a poss

[issue25092] Regression: test_datetime fails on 3.5, Win 7, works on 3.4

2015-09-14 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Argh, finally I got it: You suggested that Python users work around this in 3.5 by setting errno from the interpreter. I think it's better to release 3.5.1 early. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.py

[issue25147] Enum: remove dependency on OrderedDict

2015-09-17 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel added the comment: > _collections sounds cool, but the flip side is any python without the C > implemntation would still have the slower startup, right? I wouldn't bother too much with that, certainly not given the order we are talking about here. Jython's startu

[issue25147] Enum: remove dependency on OrderedDict

2015-09-17 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel added the comment: Let's say the change minimises the dependencies. That is a reasonable goal, too. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue25150] 3.5: Include/pyatomic.h is incompatible with OpenMP (compilation of the third-party yt module fails on Python 3.5)

2015-09-18 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel added the comment: Would there be a way to expose these internals rather than hiding them? -- nosy: +scoder ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25

[issue25150] 3.5: Include/pyatomic.h is incompatible with OpenMP (compilation of the third-party yt module fails on Python 3.5)

2015-09-18 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel added the comment: Understood and agreed. Second patch looks good to me. Cython calls PyThreadState_GET() in pretty much every helper function that deals with exceptions, but I doubt that the potential speed difference is going to be relevant in the real world. And we target

[issue25047] xml.etree.ElementTree encoding declaration should be capital ('UTF-8') rather than lowercase ('utf-8')

2015-09-21 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel added the comment: LGTM -- nosy: +scoder ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25047> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue25124] No single .msi available for 3.5 release

2015-09-21 Thread Stefan Krah
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[issue24520] Stop using deprecated floating-point environment functions on FreeBSD

2015-09-21 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: In theory we should set FENV_ACCESS whenever the control word is changed (C99): "If part of a program tests floating-point status flags, sets floating-point control modes, or runs under non-default mode settings, but was translated with the state fo

[issue24520] Stop using deprecated floating-point environment functions on FreeBSD

2015-09-21 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Ok, clang does not support it either: https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=10409 -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue24

[issue24520] Stop using deprecated floating-point environment functions on FreeBSD

2015-09-21 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Regarding volatile: gcc/clang seem to honor *some* changes to the control word. At least in libmpdec both compilers have always left the settings 80bit-prec/ROUND_CHOP intact, even though it's not the default. Let's rewrite Python in asm to avoid th

[issue23640] int.from_bytes() is broken for subclasses

2015-09-29 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: > There are similar issues with Decimal.from_float() (C implementation only), > chain.from_iterable(), epoll.fromfd() and kqueue.fromfd(). All these > alternative constructors don't call __new__ or __init__. Could you create new issues? I

[issue25276] test_decimal sometimes crash on PPC64 AIX 3.x

2015-10-01 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Usually these segfaults are toolchain bugs (I've had at least 8, including gcc, suncc, libc...). Just a couple of observations: - The bot builds with -DCONFIG_32=1 -DANSI=1 despite being PPC64. - When we had an AIX snakebite machine, the xlc compile w

[issue25276] test_decimal sometimes crash on PPC64 AIX 3.x

2015-10-02 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: I've checked: test_decimal does not require abnormal amounts of memory or stack. On Linux/x86 a stack size of 256 (default 8192) is sufficient, and memory requirements aren't that high. We assumed that there is some memory limit on the buildbot, since

[issue25276] Intermittent segfaults on PPC64 AIX 3.x

2015-10-02 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: And the segfaults are apparently somewhat random. This is beginning to look like an issue unrelated to decimal that was perhaps recently introduced (in which case "hg bisect" would be the fastest way to debug). http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/P

[issue25276] Intermittent segfaults on PPC64 AIX 3.x

2015-10-02 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: If you have time, you could use an explicit seed (and gdb): # test_email segfault: ./python -m test -j 1 -u all -W --randseed 5634141 -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25

[issue25300] Enable Intel MPX (Memory protection Extensions) feature

2015-10-02 Thread Stefan Krah
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[issue25300] Enable Intel MPX (Memory protection Extensions) feature

2015-10-02 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: In principle adding the option is fine, but do we have a buildbot with a Skylake processor? We have lots of options that are untested and that break periodically. -- nosy: +zach.ware ___ Python tracker <h

[issue25302] Memory Leaks with Address Sanitizer

2015-10-03 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Static types leak memory on finalization, see PEP 3121. Normally it does not matter, but you see it when embedding Python. PEP 3121 isn't widely implemented because a) it complicates the code for large modules and b) there are some performance issues. Ther

[issue25300] Enable Intel MPX (Memory protection Extensions) feature

2015-10-03 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: > Whether the hardware is MPX enabled is irrelevant for the build process. The build process is only one part of the equation. Compilers do have bugs (Python has been affected by gcc, Visual Studio and suncc bugs), and we should test the actual generated

[issue25276] Intermittent segfaults on PPC64 AIX 3.x

2015-10-03 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: > It's possible that Python needs to be built with special options to allow > additional malloc space (-bmaxdata:0xN000). It seems to be the case, see Misc/README.AIX. This could explain the MemoryErrors, but not the segfaults. Are computed-goto

[issue25300] Enable Intel MPX (Memory protection Extensions) feature

2015-10-04 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Wouldn't setting CFLAGS be sufficient? ./configure CFLAGS="-fcheck-pointer-bounds -mmpx" Otherwise we could also add --with-stack-protector and --with-fortify-source and others. I'm not sure if we should add a special --with* optio

[issue25311] Add f-string support to tokenize.py

2015-10-04 Thread Stefan Krah
New submission from Stefan Krah: I think tokenize.py needs to be updated to support f-strings. BTW, the f-string implementation seems to be incredibly robust. Nice work! -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 252274 nosy: eric.smith, skrah priority: normal severity: normal stage

[issue25300] Enable Intel MPX (Memory protection Extensions) feature

2015-10-05 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: > Third party modules might need patching to work with MPX... If the flags go into CFLAGS, these modules won't compile with distutils. Perhaps we should also add LDFLAGS_NODIST, if that would solve your

[issue25342] test_json segfault on OpenBSD

2015-10-08 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Try setting the stack size to 8MB (the default on Linux) in login.conf. -- nosy: +skrah ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25

[issue25342] test_json segfault on OpenBSD

2015-10-08 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: It's not noise, we also have problems on Windows with test_json. In theory we should set Py_DEFAULT_RECURSION_LIMIT in Python/ceval.c to appropriate values for the default OS stack sizes in order to get a proper RuntimeError instead of a segfault. For Op

[issue25342] test_json segfault on OpenBSD

2015-10-08 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: The ratio (1000/8MB) seems to be stable on Linux. Perhaps we could write a getrlimit program for ./configure to get the stack size and adjust the recursion limit to keep the ratio the same. It's just an estimate of c

[issue25342] test_json segfault on OpenBSD

2015-10-08 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Or did you want to compute it at runtime? Actually, why not? -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25342> ___ ___

[issue25342] test_json segfault on OpenBSD

2015-10-10 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Adjusting the estimate at runtime sounds good to me. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25342> ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue25154] Drop the pyvenv script

2015-10-25 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel added the comment: May I ask how difficult it is for any of the core developers to fix a known typo in a Python source file? -- nosy: +scoder ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25

[issue25300] Enable Intel MPX (Memory protection Extensions) feature

2015-10-27 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: > The Python MPX binary will be built with –O0 because other optimization > levels will change instruction order and cause crashes, making it useful for > debugging purposes. I've trouble understanding this: Is the gcc mpx feature not stable?

[issue25498] Python 3.4.3 core dump with simple sample code

2015-10-29 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: We should ultimately do something like I suggested in msg235256. Everything else is a hack (N.B.: the issues that 1da9630e9b7f tried to fix were also hacks, so it isn't really the fault of that commit). -- nosy: +

[issue25498] Python 3.4.3 core dump with simple sample code

2015-10-30 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: If memoryview B is created from memoryview A, then B must be registered with the same ManagedBuffer as A, otherwise the whole scheme breaks down (PyMemoryView_FromObject() performs this check). PyMemoryView_FromBuffer() is really a legacy function that should be

[issue25520] unittest load_tests protocol not working as documented

2015-10-30 Thread Stefan Seefeld
New submission from Stefan Seefeld: As described in the README contained in the attached tarball, I'm observing wrong behavior. I have based this code on my understanding of https://docs.python.org/2/library/unittest.html#load-tests-protocol, but the effect isn't as expected (I see

[issue25498] Python 3.4.3 core dump with simple sample code

2015-10-30 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Per the docs the readonly flag must be consistent for all consumers, so checking for writability after getting the view should be okay in principle. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25

[issue25524] Add PyMemoryView_FromObjectWithFlags()

2015-10-31 Thread Stefan Krah
New submission from Stefan Krah: See for example #25498. -- messages: 253787 nosy: skrah priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Add PyMemoryView_FromObjectWithFlags() versions: Python 3.6 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.

[issue25524] Add PyMemoryView_FromObjectWithFlags()

2015-10-31 Thread Stefan Krah
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[issue25498] Python 3.4.3 core dump with simple sample code

2015-10-31 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: The current hack isn't necessary. I didn't review eryksun's patch in depth, but on the surface it looks good. I don't think the other issues you mentioned are closely related: The cause here is that the obj fields of both the second memoryview

[issue15994] memoryview to freed memory can cause segfault

2015-10-31 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: > But I think there should be some way of guaranteeing that a memoryview will > not try to access memory which has already been freed. Unless the "buffered *self" parameter in _buffered_raw_read() is made a full PEP-3118 exporter, I'm not

[issue25300] Enable Intel MPX (Memory protection Extensions) feature

2015-10-31 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Florin, thanks for the explanation. I'd suggest to wait until the mpx support is stable in gcc. Some security features in gcc never take off (-ftrapv is broken, libmudflap is deprecated, ...) so it would be nice to have some reassu

[issue25525] Deallocation scheme for memoryview is unsafe

2015-10-31 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: The "chained memoryviews" you refer to are a hack and simply aren't supported. Please stop spreading FUD. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.pyt

[issue25525] Deallocation scheme for memoryview is unsafe

2015-11-01 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: > First garbage collector calls tp_clear for all objects in the loop > (memory_clear() for memoryview). If self->exports != 0 for memoryview, _memory_release() fails and the _Py_MEMORYVIEW_RELEASED flag is not set. I don't understand: 1) memor

[issue25194] Opt-in motivations & affiliations page for core contributors

2015-11-01 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Hmm, I have some reservations about linking to statistics. They can really give wrong incentives for committing (and IMO this is already happening on GitHub). -- nosy: +skrah ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.

[issue25525] Deallocation scheme for memoryview is unsafe

2015-11-01 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: First of all, the premise "exports > 0" in your example looks wrong to me. The deallocation process for the first view should start precisely when it no longer has any exports. In fact, the check for "exports > 0" is for the case wh

[issue25525] Deallocation scheme for memoryview is unsafe

2015-11-02 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Thanks, no big problem. The thing is that the parts I wrote (Modules/_decimal/*, Objects/memoryobject.c, Modules/_testbuffer.c) have been audited rather heavily and have 100% code coverage with a privately maintained patch that inserts allocation failures. There

[issue25483] Improve f-string implementation: FORMAT_VALUE opcode

2015-11-02 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: The MASK idiom is nice and I think it's good to be exposed to it from time to time. -- nosy: +skrah ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue24623] Parser: broken line numbers for triple-quoted strings

2015-11-05 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Victor, I'm adding you just in case this also affects your optimizer (like #2). -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/is

[issue24623] Parser: broken line numbers for triple-quoted strings

2015-11-05 Thread Stefan Krah
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[issue25558] Use static asserts in C code

2015-11-05 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Serhiy, could you please not change stuff that I maintain? I know you have the best intentions, but I really don't like these kinds of changes (just like you don't like trailing whitespace :). -- no

[issue25558] Use static asserts in C code

2015-11-05 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Thank you! -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25558> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue24999] Segfault in test_re.test_sre_character_class_literals() when Python is compiled by ICC

2015-11-08 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: > It looks to me that all issues are related to floating points. You need to compile with "-fp-model strict" or the Windows equivalent (I think "-fp-model precise"). -- ___ Python tracker

[issue24999] Segfault in test_re.test_sre_character_class_literals() when Python is compiled by ICC

2015-11-08 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: If anyone worries that "-fp-model strict" will slow things down: In the Python context these settings have no measurable impact: A while ago I tested setting/restoring the control word *for every operation*, and even that did not have

[issue25465] Pickle uses O(n) memory overhead

2015-11-09 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: It's a Linux issue. Disable overcommitting of memory (at your own peril) or set user limits (for example with djb's softlimit), then the process will be killed instead of freezing the machine. -- nosy: +skrah

[issue22499] [SSL: BAD_WRITE_RETRY] bad write retry in _ssl.c:1636

2015-11-09 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: I had a similar issue with ucspi-ssl that was fixed by following the O'Reilly book's recommendations w.r.t WANT_READ/WANT_WRITE with non-blocking sockets to the letter. The recommendations are quite complex since apparently WANT_READ/WANT_WRITE mean

[issue25598] Fix memory_hex (#9951) for non-contiguous buffers

2015-11-10 Thread Stefan Krah
New submission from Stefan Krah: memory_hex from #9951 fails for non-contiguous buffers. -- assignee: skrah files: memhex.diff keywords: patch messages: 254454 nosy: skrah priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Fix memory_hex (#9951) for non-contiguous buffers type: crash

[issue25598] Fix memory_hex (#9951) for non-contiguous buffers

2015-11-11 Thread Stefan Krah
Changes by Stefan Krah : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25598> ___

[issue25455] Some repr implementations don't check for self-referential structures

2015-11-23 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: I think you may have meant Eli Bendersky -- I'm not an elementree expert (Eli, I'm adding you back just to clear this up). -- nosy: +eli.bendersky ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.o

[issue25726] sys.setprofile / sys.getprofile asymetry

2015-11-24 Thread Stefan Seefeld
New submission from Stefan Seefeld: I'm using the `cProfile` module to profile my code. I tried to temporarily disable the profiler by using: prof = sys.getprofile() sys.setprofile(None) ... sys.setprofile(prof) resulting in an error. The reason is that with `cPr

[issue25300] Enable Intel MPX (Memory protection Extensions) feature

2015-11-25 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: > Py_ssize_t ob_array[1] Py_VARIABLE_SIZE; /* Looks weird and confusing */ Yes, I dislike that, too. The question is why gcc has supported the "struct hack" for more than 20 years but needs an annotation just for MPX. Is the annotation also neede

[issue25780] Add support for CAN_RAW_JOIN_FILTERS

2015-12-02 Thread Stefan Tatschner
New submission from Stefan Tatschner: Here is a patch, which adds support for CAN_RAW_JOIN_FILTERS which is available since linux 4.1 [1]. My patch fixes trailing whitespace issues as well. Since I have a newer version of autotools, running "autoreconf" generates a lot of changes,

[issue25780] Add support for CAN_RAW_JOIN_FILTERS

2015-12-02 Thread Stefan Tatschner
Stefan Tatschner added the comment: in case you don't like whitespace cleanups, here is the patch with "git diff --ignore-space-changes". -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file41211/can_raw_join_filters-no-whitespace.diff ___

[issue25780] Add support for CAN_RAW_JOIN_FILTERS

2015-12-02 Thread Stefan Tatschner
Stefan Tatschner added the comment: Because is the first time I work with this bugtracking system on python.org, how can I update my patch? :) Just upload a new one? -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25

[issue25780] Add support for CAN_RAW_JOIN_FILTERS

2015-12-02 Thread Stefan Tatschner
Stefan Tatschner added the comment: Thanks! Here is an update. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file41218/can_raw_join_filters-no-whitespace-v2.diff ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25

[issue25780] Add support for CAN_RAW_JOIN_FILTERS

2015-12-02 Thread Stefan Tatschner
Stefan Tatschner added the comment: Hmm. I just adapted this feature request from issue22631 for the new constant and I verified that my patch actually works. I could try to provide a test, but then I would have to open Pandora's box as I am not a CPython developer a

[issue25797] Default argument values with type hints break type correctness

2015-12-04 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: The compiler does not perform type checking. These are type *annotations* for third party tools like Mypy. -- nosy: +skrah ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25

[issue25823] Speed-up oparg decoding on little-endian machines

2015-12-08 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Usually unaligned accesses are believed to carry a big performance penalty, though rumor has it that for the latest generation of CPUs this is no longer an issue. -- nosy: +skrah ___ Python tracker <h

[issue25928] Improve performance of statistics._decimal_to_ratio and fractions.from_decimal

2015-12-23 Thread Stefan Krah
Changes by Stefan Krah : -- nosy: +steven.daprano ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue25928> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

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