For more comments, read the patches@python.org archives.
For documentation read the comments in mymalloc.h and objimpl.h.
(This is not exactly what Vladimir posted to the patches list; I've
made a few changes, and Vladimir sent me a fix in private email for a
problem that only occurs in debug mode. I'm also holding back on his
change to main.c, which seems unnecessary to me.)
Added wrapping macros to dictobject.c, listobject.c, tupleobject.c,
frameobject.c, traceback.c that safely prevends core dumps
on stack overflow. Macros and functions in object.c, object.h.
The method is an "elevator destructor" that turns cascading
deletes into tail recursive behavior when some limit is hit.
no valid directory is passed in. This prevents __del__ to fail when
invoked after __builtins__ has already been discarded.
Also add PyFrame_Fini() to discard the cache of frames.
Rather than allocating a list object for the fast locals and another
(extensible one) for the value stack and allocating the block stack
dynamically, allocate the block stack with a fixed size (CO_MAXBLOCKS
from compile.h), and stick the locals and value stack at the end of
the object (this is now possible since the stack size is known
beforehand). Get rid of the owner field and the nvalues argument --
it is available in the code object, like nlocals.
This requires small changes in ceval.c only.
