From: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:39:25 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix incorrect comment regarding MAGIC and TAG in import.c
X-Git-Tag: v3.2a3~324
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cd419abe42b42c626d91d5f839d53bdbde9852e0;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Fix incorrect comment regarding MAGIC and TAG in import.c
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diff --git a/Python/import.c b/Python/import.c
index f5bc03ddd834..b8cfbee61023 100644
--- a/Python/import.c
+++ b/Python/import.c
@@ -108,8 +108,11 @@ typedef unsigned short mode_t;
        Python 3.2a2  3180 (add DELETE_DEREF)
 */
 
-/* If you change MAGIC, you must change TAG and you must insert the old value
-   into _PyMagicNumberTags below.
+/* MAGIC must change whenever the bytecode emitted by the compiler may no
+   longer be understood by older implementations of the eval loop (usually
+   due to the addition of new opcodes)
+   TAG must change for each major Python release. The magic number will take
+   care of any bytecode changes that occur during development.
 */
 #define MAGIC (3180 | ((long)'\r'<<16) | ((long)'\n'<<24))
 #define TAG "cpython-32"