On Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 11:57:17 PM UTC+1, Cem Karan wrote: > Hi all, I've all of a sudden gotten interested in the CPython interpreter, > and started trying to understand how it ingests and runs byte code. I found > Include/opcode.h in the python sources, and I found some basic documentation > on how to add in new opcodes online, but I haven't found the equivalent of an > assembly manual like you might for x86, etc. Is there something similar to a > manual dedicated to python byte code? Also, is there a manual for how the > interpreter expects the stack, etc. to be setup so that all interactions go > as expected (garbage collections works, exceptions work, etc.)? Basically, I > want a manual similar to what Intel or AMD might put out for their chips so > that all executables behave nicely with one another. > > Thanks, > Cem Karan
Further to Ben Finney's answer this https://docs.python.org/devguide/compiler.html should help. Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
