Clarification: This IS stated in the source - in object.h are the following sage words:
--- *** WARNING*** The Py_DECREF macro must have a side-effect-free argument since it may evaluate its argument multiple times. (The alternative would be to mace it a proper function or assign it to a global temporary variable first, both of which are slower; and in a multi-threaded environment the global variable trick is not safe.) --- (I assume that should be "make" not "mace", unless the implication is that turning a macro into a function involves pounding it into submission...) Since inline functions are a part of C99 as well as C++, would it be possible to have configure.sh detect its availability and optionally use that instead of preprocessor macros, or would this run the risk of encouraging trickily unportable code? Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
