From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:25:18 +0000 (-0700) Subject: gh-95914: Add What's New item describing PEP 670 changes (GH-98315) X-Git-Tag: v3.11.1~272 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f4a0b80250576a71e342d09a8b1143f29cd5adc1;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git gh-95914: Add What's New item describing PEP 670 changes (GH-98315) (cherry picked from commit aafc53c0a6d1450dcfbc3f994318025ffb49ce73) Co-authored-by: C.A.M. Gerlach --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst index 24ee491d28e2..b765b1a11b18 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst @@ -1899,6 +1899,17 @@ New Features Porting to Python 3.11 ---------------------- +* Some macros have been converted to static inline functions to avoid + `macro pitfalls `_. + The change should be mostly transparent to users, + as the replacement functions will cast their arguments to the expected types + to avoid compiler warnings due to static type checks. + However, when the limited C API is set to >=3.11, + these casts are not done, + and callers will need to cast arguments to their expected types. + See :pep:`670` for more details. + (Contributed by Victor Stinner and Erlend E. Aasland in :gh:`89653`.) + * :c:func:`PyErr_SetExcInfo()` no longer uses the ``type`` and ``traceback`` arguments, the interpreter now derives those values from the exception instance (the ``value`` argument). The function still steals references